Re: JNDI and multiple adds corrupts DB (ITS#2152)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

I suggest you try 2.1.8.  It contains changes in this area.

Kurt

At 02:30 PM 2002-10-23, quanah@stanford.edu wrote:
>Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-Mount
>Version: 2.1.5
>OS: Solaris 8
>URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>Submission from: (NULL) (171.64.19.82)
>
>
>System setup:
>
>cyrus-sasl 2.1.7
>Berkeley DB 4.0.14 + Openldap suggested patches
>Kerberos5 1.2.1
>Openldap 2.1.5
>Openssl 0.9.6g
>OS: Solaris 8
>
>Following is example code snippet:
>
>I attach the whole code. The crash happens at the red line. Could you try to
>add same given name twice? Maybe the same value caused the crash. The
>different value works. I should try to avoid it in the program, but it is
>better not crash the directory. Some Error message will be better.
>
>       name = "suRegID=118217f4e76411d184232436000baa77, cn=People,
>dc=Stanford, dc=edu";
>
>        // Specify the changes to make
>        ModificationItem[] mods = new ModificationItem[3];
>
>        mods[0] = new ModificationItem(DirContext.REPLACE_ATTRIBUTE,
>        new BasicAttribute("displayName", "Minh's Nguyen"));
>
>        mods[1] = new ModificationItem(DirContext.REPLACE_ATTRIBUTE,
>        new BasicAttribute("suDisplaynameLF", "Nguyen, Minh-Thih"));
>
>        mods[2] = new ModificationItem(DirContext.ADD_ATTRIBUTE,
>        new BasicAttribute("givenName", "Minh"));
>
>        // Perform the requested modifications on the named object
>        ctx.modifyAttributes(name, mods);
>
>When JNDI is used to perform an add when a value already exists (In this case,
>givenName is already in the directory entry), slapd dies, and the DB is
>corrupted.  Obviously, you would expect someone to use replace instead of add. 
>Doing this on the command line properly comes back with an error message.
>
>--Quanah