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and subject line Bug#767611: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #368297,
regarding nss-ldap changing uid due to using gcrypt somewhere...
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Package: libnss-ldap,libldap-2.4-2
Version: libnss-ldap/264-2.1
Version: libldap-2.4-2/2.4.17-2.1
Hi,
libgcrypt11 has the "feature" of changing the real uid if it differs
from the effective user id and the effective user id is 0 [1]. This
comes from a time when programs had to be setuid root in order to use
mlock() to protect memory containing private keys.
This means that setuid applications using nss-ldap with a SSL connection
will lose their elevated privileges (unless a daemon such as nscd is
used). Thus applications like su, sudo, at, ... do longer work
correctly. Sadly upstream seems to consider this side effect in
libgcrypt a feature and seems not willing to change it.
One way to solve this problem would having a separate libldap package
that links against OpenSSL [2] and could be used by libraries such as
libnss-ldap.
Regards,
Ansgar
[1] <http://bugs.debian.org/566351>
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423252>
[2] I understand that the package uses GnuTLS/gcrypt to be
GPL-compatible, so this would be in addition to the present
package.
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Dear submitter,
as the package libgcrypt11 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/767611
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