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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2019-01-31 18:49:58 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2019-01-31 18:49:58 +0100
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nss_files: Fix /etc/aliases null pointer dereference [BZ #24059]
If /etc/aliases ends with a continuation line (a line that starts with whitespace) which does not have a trailing newline character, the file parser would crash due to a null pointer dereference. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'nss/nss_files')
-rw-r--r--nss/nss_files/files-alias.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nss/nss_files/files-alias.c b/nss/nss_files/files-alias.c
index 540eb9c..34d7aa8 100644
--- a/nss/nss_files/files-alias.c
+++ b/nss/nss_files/files-alias.c
@@ -333,6 +333,16 @@ get_next_alias (FILE *stream, const char *match, struct aliasent *result,
can be ignored. */
first_unused[room_left - 1] = '\xff';
line = fgets_unlocked (first_unused, room_left, stream);
+ if (line == NULL)
+ {
+ /* Continuation line without any data and
+ without a newline at the end. Treat it as an
+ empty line and retry, reaching EOF once
+ more. */
+ line = first_unused;
+ *line = '\0';
+ continue;
+ }
if (first_unused[room_left - 1] != '\xff')
goto no_more_room;
cp = strpbrk (line, "#\n");