Bug 180830

Summary:	sys-apps/findutils - find segfaults with invalid number as -uid/-gid parameter
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dick Marinus <dick>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2007.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	findutils-4.3.6-uid-gid-fix.patch

Description Dick Marinus 2007-06-04 09:41:22 UTC

Steps to reproduce:
1. emerge system
2. find -uid hello

(-uid only takes numeric value's)

Result:
Segmentation fault

Expected result:
-uid must take an numeric value (or something like that)

-gid has the same problem.

Comment 1 Togge 2007-06-04 10:53:41 UTC

Created attachment 121125 [details, diff]
findutils-4.3.6-uid-gid-fix.patch

Adds a check to parse_[gu]id() to see if the call to insert_num() returns true or false.

Applies to >=sys-apps/findutils-4.3.4

Comment 2 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-06-04 20:55:11 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 166233 ***