Patch to fix a segfault while duping some security descriptors

Nadezhda Ivanova nivanova at samba.org
Sat Jun 19 13:49:20 MDT 2010


Oops, sorry, it appears this is something else. I see no problem with it,
its a nice patch. You can push it if you like, if not, I will do it
tomorrow.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer
<mdw at samba.org>wrote:

> Well, I don't see it in.
>
> Nadezhda Ivanova wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> As I remember I reviewed the patch and Anatoliy pushed it. It should be in
>> already.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer <mdw at samba.org<mailto:
>> mdw at samba.org>> wrote:
>>
>>    Nadia,
>>
>>    do we still need this patch? Would you like to push it? Or how to
>>    proceed here?
>>
>>    Matthias
>>
>>
>>    Nadezhda Ivanova wrote:
>>
>>        Hi,
>>        That's a nice fix, but where is the caller that provided an
>>        uninitialized
>>        DACL? Maybe that needs fixing too.
>>
>>
>>        On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Anatoliy Atanasov<
>>        anatoliy.atanasov at postpath.com
>>        <mailto:anatoliy.atanasov at postpath.com>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>            Hi there,
>>
>>            I had the same problem :), just waiting for the patch to
>>            be approved before
>>            pushing it.
>>
>>            Thanks,
>>            Anatoliy
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>>                Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 0:04:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
>>                Athens, Bucharest,
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>>            Istanbul
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>>                Subject: Patch to fix a segfault while duping some
>>                security descriptors
>>
>>
>>                    I found a segfault when duplicating a security
>>                    descriptor that was
>>
>>                missing sacls or dacls. I ran into this when a piece
>>                of my code wrote
>>                a security descriptor for an LDAP user that had no
>>                sacls. After doing
>>                that, checking or unchecking the "User cannot change
>>                password" option
>>                in the AD admin tool would cause samba to crash.
>>
>>                I fixed this by checking if the acl was null in
>>                security_acl_dup
>>                function, and returning NULL if that was the case.
>>
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