Opened 3 years ago

Closed 3 years ago

#4969 closed enhancement (fixed)

shadow-4.10

Reported by: Bruce Dubbs Owned by: lfs-book
Priority: normal Milestone: 11.1
Component: Book Version: git
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

New minor version.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Xi Ruoyao, 3 years ago

William Harrington reported a segfault running useradd -D via lfs-dev. The fix is at https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/482.

I'm unhappy as they could make such a stupid programming error. Even a freshman will get an 'F' in the C programming language class for this.

comment:2 by Bruce Dubbs, 3 years ago

Release 4.10 Latest

Note: From this release forward, su from this package should be considered deprecated. Please replace any users of it with su from util-linux. Please open an issue if there is a problem with that. We intend to remove it in an upcoming release.

This release features many fixes expecially to the building of libsubid, some SELinux labeling issues, and a few signaling issues.

Changelog:

  • libsubid fixes (
  • Rename the test program list_subid_ranges to getsubids, write a manpage, so distros can ship it.
  • Add libeconf dep for new*idmap
  • Allow all group types with usermod -G
  • Avoid useradd generating empty subid range
  • Handle NULL pw_passwd
  • Fix default value SHA_get_salt_rounds
  • Use https where possible in README
  • Update content and format of README
  • Translation updates
  • Switch from xml2po to itstool in 'make dist'
  • Fix double frees
  • Add LOG_INIT configurable to useradd
  • Add CREATE_MAIL_SPOOL documentation
  • Create a security.md
  • Fix su never being SIGKILLd when trapping TERM
  • Fix wrong SELinux labels in several possible cases
  • Fix missing chmod in chadowtb_move
  • Handle malformed hushlogins entries
  • Fix groupdel segv when passwd does not exist
  • Fix covscan-found newgrp segfault
  • Remove trailing slash on hoedir
  • Fix passwd -l message - it does not change expirey
  • Fix SIGCHLD handling bugs in su and vipw
  • Remove special case for "" in usermod
  • Implement usermod -rG to remove a specific group
  • call pam_end() after fork in child path for su and login
  • useradd: In absence of /etc/passwd, assume 0 == root
  • lib: check NULL before freeing data
  • Fix pwck segfault

comment:3 by Bruce Dubbs, 3 years ago

Created shadow-4.10-useradd_segfault-1.patch in the patches git repository.

comment:4 by Bruce Dubbs, 3 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fixed at commit ad89f7b0d63fac3c1bca0e5d11880d97c511f84e

Package updates.
    Update to e2fsprogs-1.46.5.
    Update to zstd-1.5.1.
    Update to expat-2.4.2.
    Update to shadow-4.10.
    Update to sysvinit-3.01.
    Update to linux-5.15.12.
    Update to iana-etc-20211224.
    Update to openssl-3.0.1.
    Update to eudev-3.2.11.
    Update lfs-latest-git.php currency for new eudev location.
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