openssh unix dev - Mar 2004 - [Bug 808] segfault if not using pam/keyboard-interactive mech and password's expired

bugzilla-daemon at mindrot.org wrote:
 >Summary: segfault if not using pam/keyboard-interactive mech and
 >   password's expired

	I'm sorry to report that there is a bug in the PAM code in OpenSSH 
3.8p1, and sorrier to say that I put it there.  This is a NULL pointer 
dereference and is *not* considered to be a security vulnerability.

	When sshd is configured --with-pam, run with UsePAM=yes, and a user 
with an expired password successfully authenticates via a method other 
than keyboard-interactive without trying keyboard-interactive first, 
sshd will attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and segfault.  In such a 
case, the user's session will be immediately terminated.

	If UsePAM=no (the default), this problem will not occur.

	The attached patch fixes this.  Please test it, we would like to 
release a 3.8p2 soon containing this and a few other fixes.

	My apologies to anyone inconvenienced by this.

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Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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