Bug#274155: samba: ldapsam_compat ldap backend completely broken

[Markus Schabel]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:19:51 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:01:25AM +0100, Fabien Chevalier wrote:
>> Package: samba
>> Version: 3.0.7-1
>> Severity: critical
>> Tags: patch
>> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
>> We upgraded a sarge system recently, acting as a PDC for a small network.
>> Smbd then started to segfault each time a user tryed to connect to the box,
>> resulting in a major outage.
>> This issue has been introduced somewhere between 3.0.5 and 3.0.7, as 3.0.5
>> works great.
>> 
>> I've tagged it as critical, as it will break woody users upgrading their
>> samba 2.2 PDC to samba 3.0
> 
> The samba 2.2 packages included with woody never supported ldap;
> therefore I am downgrading this to important.  (Please note also that
> breaking samba != breaking the whole system: if this were a
> release-critical bug, it would be grave, not critical.)
> 
> The patch looks clean, however, and should easily be included in the
> next upload.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer

I think 3.0.7-2 is still broken? At least it segfaults the same way as
the unpatched 3.0.7-1 packages. With the patch supplied by Fabien it
works again.

Isn't this an upstream bug? The pdb_ldap.c file in 3.0.8pre2 seems not
to be fixed. Appended is the patch for 3.0.8pre2 in case the problem
still exists there.

best regards,
Markus
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