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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:13:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: eric.pruitt@...il.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request - slock, all versions NULL pointer dereference
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> The screen locking application slock (http://tools.suckless.org/slock/)
> calls crypt(3) and uses the return value for strcmp(3) without checking
> to see if the return value of crypt(3) was a NULL pointer. If the hash
> returned by (getspnam()->sp_pwdp) is invalid, crypt(3) will return NULL
> and set errno to EINVAL. This will cause slock to segfault which then
> leaves the machine unprotected. A couple of common scenarios where this
> might happen are:
>
> - a machine using NSS for authentication; on the machine I discovered
> this bug, (getspnam()->sp_pwdp) returns "*".
> - the user's account has been disabled for one reason or another; maybe
> account expiry or password expiry.
Use CVE-2016-6866.
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