[PHP-DEV] Bug #4009: getpwnam crashes if parsing a passwd entry with null gecos From: kiko <email protected>
Date: 04/03/00

From: kiko <email protected>
Operating system: Linux-2.2.14
PHP version: 3.0.15
PHP Bug Type: Reproduceable crash
Bug description: getpwnam crashes if parsing a passwd entry with null gecos

A simple

<? var_dump(posix_getpwnam("user")) ?>

will core dump if user has a null gecos (possibly, any
null value). As in:

user:x:500:100::/home/user:/bin/bash

 The fix needs to take into account nulls comming in
via getpwnam and appropriately blank the fields. I can't fix this right now,
but it should be an easy one.

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