Bug#369536: marked as done (_nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion `len > 0' failed)

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• To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
• Subject: netgroup: nis in nsswitch.conf causes libc6 to fail and programs like sudo or rpc.mountd to crash
• From: Volker Sauer <vsauer@dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
• Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 15:33:21 +0200
• Message-id: <20060530133321.27086.52195.reportbug@gelnhausen.dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.6-9
Severity: important


if in /etc/nsswitch.conf:

netgroup:       nis


then e.g. sudo fails:

vsauer@gelnhausen: ~ > sudo bash
sudo: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:78: _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion `len > 0' failed

and rpc.mountd fails with the same error.

If I set

netgroup: files

everything runs okay.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.9-686-dvs1-1
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  tzdata                        2006c-2    Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time

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• To: Sergio Gelato <Sergio.Gelato@astro.su.se>, 369536-done@bugs.debian.org
• Subject: Re: Bug#369536: _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion `len > 0' failed
• From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
• Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:03:07 +0200
• Message-id: <20070413090307.GA8864@.intersec.eu>
• In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20070413083836.GC9421@hanuman.astro.su.se>
• References: <[🔎] 20070413083836.GC9421@hanuman.astro.su.se>

Version: 2.5

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:38:37AM +0200, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> unmerge 369536
> retitle 369536 _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion `len > 0' failed
> found 369536 2.3.6.ds1-13
> tags 369536 + fixed-upstream
> thanks
> 
> This bug is about the NIS netgroup map, the others are about the
> group map. Unmerging.
> 
> This particular bug is a duplicate of
> 	http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96370
> which was resolved (upstream) long ago. Basically, the assert(len > 0) 
> on line 78 of nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c should read assert(len >= 0).

  Indeed this is fixed in glibc2.5


> A real shame that this made it into etch.
  This remark is greatly appreciated.


  A real shame you hibernated until now.
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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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