Re: Coredump on ACLs for nonexistent Attributes. Is it a bug?

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Christian Marg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I didn't find an ITS concerning what I encountered yesterday:
>
> I had ACLs defined for undefined attributes (e.g. a schema file was
> missing some entries) and slaptest etc. crashed with dumped core.
>
> The message I got was:
>
> slaptest in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense
> Abort (core dumped)
>
> I'm using v 2.3.34 on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3.

A crash is (almost) always a bug.  Please file a regular ITS, possibly 
after checking that ITS#4854, fixed in 2.3.35, doesn't fix your issue.

p.



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