Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2015-04-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, 3.17-34 didn't make it into jessie. Could you please upload a fixed package to stable-proposed-updates or maybe even security? MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 09:03:33AM -0500, Jon Daley wrote: > You've made a couple references to using shadow and nis being unusual. Do > people usually turn off shadow passwords when using other systems? And you Well, it's more that they don't usually deploy NIS on systems that default to shado

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-13 Thread Jon Daley
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 07:07:07AM -0500, Jon Daley wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: As I posted in the original report, there was a change to crypt() which now exposes a long standing bug in nis. OK, so this is new information. Th

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 07:07:07AM -0500, Jon Daley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >>The normal thing I've seen is to have people log onto the master server > >>(or make some similar arrangement) and make the change there. > >I think you can have a setup where nis expo

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-12 Thread Jon Daley
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The normal thing I've seen is to have people log onto the master server (or make some similar arrangement) and make the change there. I think you can have a setup where nis exports the /etc/passwd of one master server or something. But at least t

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:10:10AM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:00:28PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 03:34:43PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > Please don't inflate severities pointlessly; there are simple solutions > > > to this like cha

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:00:28PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 03:34:43PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > Please don't inflate severities pointlessly; there are simple solutions > > to this like changing passwords by logging into a specific system to do > > so which p

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 03:34:43PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > severity 721737 normal > kthxbye > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 02:18:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Not being able to change the password is a security problem. Raising > > severity > > to grave. > > Please don't inflate se

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-09 Thread Mark Brown
severity 721737 normal kthxbye On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 02:18:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Not being able to change the password is a security problem. Raising severity > to grave. Please don't inflate severities pointlessly; there are simple solutions to this like changing passwords

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Not being able to change the password is a security problem. Raising severity to grave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow (or probably when current password is only one character)

2013-09-03 Thread Jon Daley
Package: nis Version: 3.17-32 Severity: normal I might have something in my NIS configuration that is displaying this bug, but I think it is a bug whether or not that is the case. On line 410 of yppasswd.c, crypt() is run, with the salt parameter that is only checked to be one character long. If