[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#508561: Bug#508561: SIGSEGV in slapd if smbk5pwd build and installed with heimdal >= 1.0

[Andrey Volkov]

Hello Quanah!

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Friday, December 12, 2008 4:36 PM +0300 Andrey Volkov
> <avolkov at varma-el.com> wrote:
> 
>> Package: slapd
>> Version: 2.4.11-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> As I describe in subj. any version of slapd will died (SIGSEGV)
>> when user account password will changed if module smbk5pwd,
>> built with heimdal >= 1.0, will loaded.
>>
>> This bug was arise when heimdal 1.0 was released, and fix was
>> sent by Guillaume Rousse at Wed, 28 May 2008
>> (see discussion at
>> http://www.stacken.kth.se/lists/heimdal-discuss/2008-05/msg00069.html),
>> and Howard Chu confirm it.
>>
>> I don't know why this bugfix is not in main openldap src tree yet.
>>
>> Debianized Guillaume's patch attached.
> 
> Perhaps because the patch isn't finalized?
> 
> <http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi?findid=5535>
> 
> In particular, read the last part of the last sentence:
> 
> "but I don't know how to deal with members of private kadm_context
> structure."

Oops, certainly I did'n read this list before.
But, IMHO, it will be better if slapd will not died with this
(relative) incomplete patch, then silently die without it.

May be temporarily put this patch to debian/patches?

--
Andrey