[Unbound-users] Segfault on user not found with 1.5.3

W.C.A. Wijngaards wouter at nlnetlabs.nl
Mon Mar 23 20:21:30 UTC 2015


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Hi Maciej,

On 03/23/2015 06:04 PM, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just took the latest 1.5.3, compiled it and ran the executable
> without doing any config. Just to see what happens.
> 
> It segfaulted after saying user unbound not found.
> 
> The issue is in util/config_file.c in function
> config_lookup_uid().
> 
> getpwnam() can return NULL and so subsequent referrences to pw_uid
> and pw_gid are invalid.
> 
> This patch corrects the code path to assign uid and gid only if 
> getpwnam() is successful.
> 
> It also removes the log_err() call, because perform_setup() in 
> daemon/unbound.c would print it anyway in fatal_exit()
> 
> I know it's a tiny buglet, but I couldn't resist fixing a segfault
> :-)

Thank you for the report, applied it by setting checks on the success
of that lookup and continuing with the error printed.

Best regards,
   Wouter

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