passwd seg fault

[morria <morria () RPI EDU>]

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Setting the maximum password length to 12, and a minimum of anything
causes a segmentation fault in passwd after it asks for the first
iteration of a new password.

I use crypt() which requires a maximum length of 8, so trouble is to
be expected, but a segmentation fault may of course be an indication
of a buffer overflow, which is potentially serious on a program run
by root.

I have been unable to find any source code to passwd (oddly), so I
have not been able to investigate further.

The error has been repeated several times on SuSE 6.4 and 7.1, and on
kernel 2.2.14 as well as 2.2.16.

- -Pentium Cowboy

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