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From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To: brian@FreeBSD.org
Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, kris@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/22307: ssh dumps core if fields in password entry are empty
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:12:06PM -0800, brian@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: ssh dumps core if fields in password entry are empty
> 
> Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->kris
> Responsible-Changed-By: brian
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> I submitted a patch to kris a while ago for this....
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22307

I think I fixed this with rev. 1.56 of src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c.

Though applications should check if pointers are NULL before
dereferencing, it appears that many do not when it comes to getpw*
results.
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Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org


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