Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2015-04-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, 3.17-34 didn't make it into jessie. Could you please upload a fixed package to stable-proposed-updates or maybe even security? MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-13 Thread Jon Daley
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 07:07:07AM -0500, Jon Daley wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: As I posted in the original report, there was a change to crypt() which now exposes a long standing bug in nis. OK, so this is new information.

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 09:03:33AM -0500, Jon Daley wrote: You've made a couple references to using shadow and nis being unusual. Do people usually turn off shadow passwords when using other systems? And you Well, it's more that they don't usually deploy NIS on systems that default to shadow

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:10:10AM +, Mark Brown wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:00:28PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 03:34:43PM +, Mark Brown wrote: Please don't inflate severities pointlessly; there are simple solutions to this like changing

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-12 Thread Jon Daley
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The normal thing I've seen is to have people log onto the master server (or make some similar arrangement) and make the change there. I think you can have a setup where nis exports the /etc/passwd of one master server or something. But at least

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 07:07:07AM -0500, Jon Daley wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The normal thing I've seen is to have people log onto the master server (or make some similar arrangement) and make the change there. I think you can have a setup where nis exports the

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 03:34:43PM +, Mark Brown wrote: severity 721737 normal kthxbye On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 02:18:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Not being able to change the password is a security problem. Raising severity to grave. Please don't inflate severities

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:00:28PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 03:34:43PM +, Mark Brown wrote: Please don't inflate severities pointlessly; there are simple solutions to this like changing passwords by logging into a specific system to do so which people

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Not being able to change the password is a security problem. Raising severity to grave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow

2014-12-09 Thread Mark Brown
severity 721737 normal kthxbye On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 02:18:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Not being able to change the password is a security problem. Raising severity to grave. Please don't inflate severities pointlessly; there are simple solutions to this like changing passwords

Bug#721737: nis: segfault in yppasswd when using shadow (or probably when current password is only one character)

2013-09-03 Thread Jon Daley
Package: nis Version: 3.17-32 Severity: normal I might have something in my NIS configuration that is displaying this bug, but I think it is a bug whether or not that is the case. On line 410 of yppasswd.c, crypt() is run, with the salt parameter that is only checked to be one character long.