[BUG] pam_access.so segfaults

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Thu Oct 14 00:23:55 UTC 2004


Sven Köhler wrote:
> Wouldn't the problem you describe be a more general one?
> There was only one specific account, for which the problem occured. 
> There might have been more, but i didn't find any :-(

I guess it depends on what the module does.

It seems that few applications actually *use* appdata_ptr, so bugs in 
its handling can go undetected for a long time (I know of a couple of 
vendors who have shipped modules with this type of bug).

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