>Number: 172979
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: chpass: Fix null pointer dereference
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Oct 23 10:30:01 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Erik Cederstrand
>Release: CURRENT
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Fix a null pointer dereference when ypclnt is NULL
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Break the condition into two parts.
Patch attached with submission follows:
Index: head/usr.bin/chpass/chpass.c
===================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/chpass/chpass.c (revision 241876)
+++ head/usr.bin/chpass/chpass.c (working copy)
@@ -241,8 +241,9 @@
#ifdef YP
case _PWF_NIS:
ypclnt = ypclnt_new(yp_domain, "passwd.byname", yp_host);
- if (ypclnt == NULL ||
- ypclnt_connect(ypclnt) == -1 ||
+ if (ypclnt == NULL)
+ exit(1);
+ if (ypclnt_connect(ypclnt) == -1 ||
ypclnt_passwd(ypclnt, pw, password) == -1) {
warnx("%s", ypclnt->error);
ypclnt_free(ypclnt);
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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