Strange segmentation fault in libkrb5.so.3.3 (1.6.4-beta1)

[Dan Searle]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback guys, any more ideas? I'll have a look at the 
code myself if I get the time, at present we have an ugly but feasible 
workaround, i.e. to reset the user account passwords we extract from 
core dumps the restart the service.

Regards, Dan...

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Greg Hudson <ghudson at MIT.EDU> writes:
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>> I suspect this is:
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>> http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=6681&user=guest&pass=guest
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>> which should be fixed in the forthcoming krb5 1.8.1.
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>> If I'm correct, the pam_krb5 code could work around the bug, but I'm not
>> sure if there's a configuration workaround.
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> After further investigation, I don't believe that's the problem here.
> pam-krb5 never calls krb5_get_init_creds_password with a NULL options
> argument.  (And Dan's backtrace shows that the options argument is not
> NULL.)
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