From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 8 04:15:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA20128 for current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 04:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA20116 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 04:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA19218; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:53:16 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA14713; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:53:16 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id MAA04884; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:50:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604081050.MAA04884@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: usr.bin/xinstall derefs null pointer To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:50:53 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604080408.AAA04024@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Apr 8, 96 00:08:33 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > If you invoke the new and improved install(1) with the > ALLOW_NUMERIC_IDS feature, and don't specify an owner or group, it > dereferences a null pointer. The calls to resolve_uid() and > resolve_gid() need to be protected. This seems to have gone in > recently in: Thanks. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)