Re: sudo dumping core on recent current

"Todd C. Miller" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.current
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:48:26 +1300, Lloyd Parkes wrote:

> It seems that my sudo is passing a null path to ts_secure_opendir() 
> which ends up getting passed to strrchr() causing the core dump. I'll 
> pull the thread on this and see where it leads (I'm sure that's a mixed 
> metaphor).

That could be due to either _PATH_SUDO_TIMEDIR or _PATH_SUDO_LECTURE_DIR
not being defined in pathnames.h.

The code should really check for NULL in those cases but currently
does not.  I'll make a change to that effect.

 - todd
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