heimdal 7.8 crash (in OpenLDAP) with spnego/ntlm, is this familiar?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Nov 25 21:41:12 UTC 2024


On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 16:08 +0200, Nadezhda Ivanova via samba-technical 
wrote:
> Hi team,
> An OpenLDAP user encountered this issue, and since Samba also uses
> Heimdal too, we were wondering if maybe it has happened in Samba as
> well and was fixed? Do you think it is something that can affect
> Samba? There are back traces in the issue but no steps to reproduce,
> it seems to happen randomly in their environment, and we haven't had
> any feedback from the Heimdal team yet.
> I could not find a relevant issue in the Samba bugzilla or the
> commits, but perhaps one of you remembers something?
> https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/issues/1189

Samba strictly avoids using the Heimdal SPENGO and NTLM layers, only
selecting the GSS-Krb5 mech to use our more mature internal
implementation and so avoid this kind of issue
Sorry,
Andrew Bartlett

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