[Samba] Samba4 segfault

Marcel Ritter Marcel.Ritter at rrze.uni-erlangen.de
Mon Apr 19 08:46:09 MDT 2010


Hi,

during my tests to use Samba4 as a kdc for kerberized NFS,
I found a bug in the KDC code, when generating a principal
without pac (e.g. with msktutil and option --no-pac), that
causes Samba4 to crash:

Running the following command on one of the client machines

  msktutil -c --upn nfs/testa.linex.org  -h testa.linex.org
--computer-name testa-service-nfs  --server s4-dc1.linex.org --no-pac

results in this gdb backtrace on the samba4 dc (s4-dc1.linex.org):

  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 
  0x00000000005e82e6 in samba_make_krb5_pac ()
  Current language:  auto; currently asm
  (gdb) bt  
  #0  0x00000000005e82e6 in samba_make_krb5_pac ()
  #1  0x00000000004ce243 in samba_wdc_get_pac ()
  #2  0x000000000059290b in _kdc_pac_generate ()
  #3  0x0000000000588055 in _kdc_as_rep ()
  #4  0x00000000005922ec in kdc_as_req ()
  #5  0x000000000059258e in krb5_kdc_process_krb5_request ()
  #6  0x00000000005fc1dc in kdc_process ()
  #7  0x00000000005fc4bb in kdc_tcp_call_loop ()
  ...

Looking at the code, the error is quite easy to find: 

source4/kdc/wdc-samba4.c: krb5_error_code samba_wdc_get_pac()
   calls 

1.) source4/kdc/pac-glue.c: samba_kdc_get_pac_blob()

  /* The user account may be set not to want the PAC */
  ...
     *_pac_blob = NULL;

    and then calls

2. source4/kdc/pac-glue.c: samba_make_krb5_pac()
   which tries to use uninitalized "pac_blob" and segfaults


A simple patch is attached that solved the problem for me.

Bye,
   Marcel 


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