#967940 libc6: systemd-sysusers SEGV due to glibc bug in fgetgsent

Package:
src:glibc
Source:
glibc
Submitter:
Jinpu Wang
Date:
2026-08-14 10:13:02 UTC
Severity:
important
Tags:
#967940#5
Date:
2020-08-05 10:58:11 UTC
From:
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Dear Maintainer:

After update to Buster, the systemd-sysusers are segfaulting every time.
After search around, I found following bugreport in glibc
https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2016-06/msg01015.html

I backported to the fix to 2.28-10, it fixed the problem.

glibc upstream have a different fix for it in 2.32, see
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20338

I think it's still easier to backport old 2.28 version