On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 00:36, Warren Togami wrote: > libsafe stack protection library seems to have worked well enough as an > optional add-on to Red Hat 6.x through 8.0, but I am able to > consistently reproduce this segmentation fault on Red Hat Linux 9 with > libsafe. This same operation works fine on Red Hat Linux 8.0. > [SNIP] > > Could some change in glibc-2.3.2 have broken an assumption that libsafe > makes (thus libsafe needs fixing) or is this exposing a potential flaw > in useradd? This seems to be the only 100% reproducible libsafe induced > crash that I am able to find so far. > > I am very curious about this odd behavior. Thanks in advance! shadow-utils-4.0.3-5mdk glibc-2.3.2-2mdk Someone else has confirmed that this also segfaults on Mandrake 9.1 using these package versions. I'm highly suspecting that glibc-2.3.2 means libsafe needs fixing. Thanks, Warren Togami warren@xxxxxxxxxx
