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Bug #4009 getpwnam crashes if parsing a passwd entry with null gecos
Submitted: 2000-04-03 06:45 UTC Modified: 2005-03-31 16:13 UTC
From: kiko at radiumsystems dot com dot br Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: Reproducible Crash
PHP Version: 3.0.15 OS: Linux-2.2.14
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-04-03 06:45 UTC] kiko at radiumsystems dot com dot br 
A simple

<? var_dump(posix_getpwnam("user")) ?>

will core dump if user has a null gecos (possibly, any
null value). As in:

user:x:500:100::/home/user:/bin/bash


 The fix needs to take into account nulls comming in 
via getpwnam and appropriately blank the fields. I can't fix this right now,
but it should be an easy one.

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