Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:23:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS strangeness Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9906071122550.4850-100000@jason.argos.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpvhd0kpp6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> The test program you posted doesn't do *any* error-checking... which > means that if getpwnam() fails, your program will happily try to > dereference a null pointer, hence the SIGSEGV. Shoulda put that disclaimer in -- that one was quick-and-dirty -- normally, my programs aren't that badly done.. :) mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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