Bug 5762

Summary:	syslogd segfaults when parsing a bad /etc/syslog.conf
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	dickelbeck
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:
Attachments:	patch which fixes the bug

Description dickelbeck 2012-12-06 17:30:01 UTC

Re: Busybox 1.20.2

If you don't pass the name of the /etc/syslog.conf file in as a syslod command line option, then there is an error parsing the file, you get a segfault, because "file" is still set to NULL.

Attached is a patch which fixes it.

Comment 1 dickelbeck 2012-12-06 17:31:23 UTC

Created attachment 4676 [details]
patch which fixes the bug

Comment 2 Denys Vlasenko 2013-01-20 15:06:51 UTC

Fixed in git:

commit 81fa999540740b5269a349a9e991eb506592ea75
Author: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 20 16:05:41 2013 +0100

    syslogd: do not segfault on parse error when using default config