Bug 1875 - useradd segmentation fault
Summary: useradd segmentation fault
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Sisyphus
Classification: Development
Component: shadow-utils (show other bugs)
Version: unstable
Hardware: all Linux
: P4 critical
Assignee: Mikhail Efremov
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Reported: 2003-01-09 15:57 MSK by at@altlinux.org
Modified: 2006-09-21 00:42 MSD (History)
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Description at@altlinux.org 2003-01-09 15:57:49 MSK 
sh-2.05b# useradd at
Segmentation fault
sh-2.05b# useradd at
mkdir: /etc/tcb/at: File exists
Problems creating /etc/tcb/at
sh-2.05b# rpm -qa
bzlib-1.0.2-alt6
sh-2.05b-alt4
gawk-3.1.1-alt4
libdb2-2.4.14-alt2
zlib-1.1.4-alt2
nss_tcb-0.9.8.1-alt1
pam-config-1.1.2-alt1
mktemp-1.4-alt2
crontabs-1.7-ipl12mdk
glibc-core-2.2.6-alt0.6
info-install-4.3-alt1
coreutils-4.5.3-alt2
libbeecrypt-2.2.0-alt2
libpopt-1.7-alt6
logrotate-3.6.2-alt2
pam_tcb-0.9.8.1-alt1
alt-gpgkeys-0.1-alt11
shadow-utils-4.0.0-alt8
filesystem-2.1.6-alt9
gzip-1.3.3-alt3
libtinfo-5.3.20021019-alt1
grep-2.5.1-alt0.2.cvs
libpam-0.75-alt17
libtcb-0.9.8.1-alt1
pam_passwdqc-0.7.1-alt1
perl-base-5.8.0-alt1
tcb-utils-0.9.8.1-alt1
setup-2.2.0-alt4
bzip2-1.0.2-alt6
terminfo-5.3.20021019-alt1
libpcre-3.9-alt3
libdb4-4.0.14-alt8
librpm-4.0.4-alt13
pam-0.75-alt17
pam_userpass-0.5.1-alt1
shadow-convert-4.0.0-alt8
rpm-4.0.4-alt13
sh-2.05b#

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Comment 1 Dmitry V. Levin 2003-01-09 16:00:58 MSK 
Insufficient information to reproduce.

Please rebuild shadow with \"--enable debug\" and try to get backtrace.
Comment 2 Dmitry V. Levin 2003-01-09 16:00:58 MSK 
Insufficient information to reproduce.

Please rebuild shadow with \"--enable debug\" and try to get backtrace.
Comment 3 at@altlinux.org 2003-01-09 18:11:53 MSK 
bash-2.05b# SHELL=/bin/sh LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug gdb useradd
GNU gdb ALT Linux (5.2.1-alt2)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type \"show copying\" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type \"show warranty\" for details.
This GDB was configured as \"i586-alt-linux\"...(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) r at
Starting program: /usr/sbin/useradd at

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
strcmp (p1=0x4c2f7572 <Address 0x4c2f7572 out of bounds>, p2=0x8068808 \"root\")
    at ../sysdeps/generic/strcmp.c:38
38      ../sysdeps/generic/strcmp.c: No such file or directory.
        in ../sysdeps/generic/strcmp.c
(gdb) bt
#0  strcmp (p1=0x4c2f7572 <Address 0x4c2f7572 out of bounds>, p2=0x8068808 \"root\")
    at ../sysdeps/generic/strcmp.c:38
#1  0x0804e0b0 in strcpy () at strcpy:-1
#2  0x0804b153 in strcpy () at strcpy:-1
#3  0x0804c710 in strcpy () at strcpy:-1
#4  0x0804cf0a in strcpy () at strcpy:-1
#5  0x2ab19582 in __libc_start_main (main=0x804cb50 <strcpy+11540>, argc=2, ubp_av=0x7ffff754,
    init=0x80496f4 <_init>, fini=0x2aabca2c <_dl_debug_mask>, rtld_fini=0x4c2f7572,
    stack_end=0x8068808) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129
(gdb) q
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
bash-2.05b#
Comment 4 at@altlinux.org 2003-01-09 18:11:53 MSK 
bash-2.05b# SHELL=/bin/sh LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug gdb useradd
GNU gdb ALT Linux (5.2.1-alt2)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type \"show copying\" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type \"show warranty\" for details.
This GDB was configured as \"i586-alt-linux\"...(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) r at
Starting program: /usr/sbin/useradd at

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
strcmp (p1=0x4c2f7572 <Address 0x4c2f7572 out of bounds>, p2=0x8068808 \"root\")
    at ../sysdeps/generic/strcmp.c:38
38      ../sysdeps/generic/strcmp.c: No such file or directory.
        in ../sysdeps/generic/strcmp.c
(gdb) bt
#0  strcmp (p1=0x4c2f7572 <Address 0x4c2f7572 out of bounds>, p2=0x8068808 \"root\")
    at ../sysdeps/generic/strcmp.c:38
#1  0x0804e0b0 in strcpy () at strcpy:-1
#2  0x0804b153 in strcpy () at strcpy:-1
#3  0x0804c710 in strcpy () at strcpy:-1
#4  0x0804cf0a in strcpy () at strcpy:-1
#5  0x2ab19582 in __libc_start_main (main=0x804cb50 <strcpy+11540>, argc=2, ubp_av=0x7ffff754,
    init=0x80496f4 <_init>, fini=0x2aabca2c <_dl_debug_mask>, rtld_fini=0x4c2f7572,
    stack_end=0x8068808) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129
(gdb) q
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
bash-2.05b#
Comment 5 Dmitry V. Levin 2003-07-02 21:26:51 MSD 
Fixed (patch from Alexey Voinov) in shadow-4.0.0-alt11.
Comment 6 Dmitry V. Levin 2003-07-02 21:26:51 MSD 
Fixed (patch from Alexey Voinov) in shadow-4.0.0-alt11.