[krbdev.mit.edu #6796] segfault due to uninitialized variable in S4U

Arlene Berry via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Tue Oct 5 12:45:48 EDT 2010


In src/lib/gssapi/krb5/s4u_gss_glue.c,
krb5_gss_acquire_cred_impersonate_name doesn't initialize cred.  If
kg_impersonate_name returns an error it doesn't set cred either so when
*output_cred_handle is set to cred it's set to unitialized memory.  The
result is that gss_add_cred_impersonate_name in
src/lib/gssapi/mechglue/g_acquire_cred_imp_name.c will then call
mech->gss_release_cred on a bad cred pointer in its errout section.





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