[Bug 1890535] Re: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing segfaults in applications

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

Do you have a test case for this? I tried the one from the systemd bug
report in a focal container and it seemed to work fine.

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Title:
  Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing segfaults in
  applications

Status in GLibC:
  Fix Released
Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in glibc source package in Focal:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This bug is already solved upstream
  (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20338) in 2.32 and
  has to be backported.

  It indirectly causes systemd-sysusers on 20.04/focal to fail
  (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6512).

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