Bug#336661: bash: assertion fails when logging in to NIS account

[Bradley, James D. CONT (EAGAN, MCALLISTER ASSOC Dept 723)]

Title: Message

Package: bash
Version: 3.0-17
Severity: normal

 

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On my NIS client system (running nis 3.15-2), I have my NIS accounts
imported using a netgroup in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]:::...).
When I try to log in or su to a NIS account, I get the following error:

 

bash: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:79: _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion `malloc_usable_size (netgrp->data) >= len + 1' failed.

 

and bash exits immediately.  When I modify /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to
import all NIS users rather than only those in the netgroup, bash works fine.

 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.4
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

 

Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii  base-files                    3.1.9      Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                   5.4-9      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  passwd                        1:4.0.13-1 change and administer password and

 

bash recommends no packages.

 

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