[11701] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
[krbdev.mit.edu #6777] Segmentation fault in krb library (sn2princ.c)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson via RT)
Fri Sep 17 15:26:02 2010
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[tlyu - Fri Sep 17 14:46:43 2010]:
> Perhaps strdup() on AIX can return NULL for a zero-length string? For
> that matter, does malloc() on AIX return NULL for a zero argument?
I don't think it's fruitful to speculate, only to step through in a
debugger.
(krb5int_build_principal_va() would not invoke malloc(0) if the realm is
empty. It would invoke strdup("") but a lot more software would break on
AIX if it's strdup were so broken as to return NULL in that case.)
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