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1
2This patch is from Slackware, I tried to find the actual
3author to add that attribution. The comment below is the
4best summary, I will not repeat it here.
5
6Upstream-Status: Backport from slackware
7
8Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
9
10Index: shadow-4.1.4.3/lib/encrypt.c
11===================================================================
12--- shadow-4.1.4.3.orig/lib/encrypt.c
13+++ shadow-4.1.4.3/lib/encrypt.c
14@@ -45,15 +45,40 @@ char *pw_encrypt (const char *clear, con
15 static char cipher[128];
16 char *cp;
17
18- cp = crypt (clear, salt);
19- if (!cp) {
20- /*
21- * Single Unix Spec: crypt() may return a null pointer,
22- * and set errno to indicate an error. The caller doesn't
23- * expect us to return NULL, so...
24- */
25- perror ("crypt");
26- exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
27+ cp = crypt (clear, salt);
28+ if (!cp) {
29+ /*
30+ * In glibc-2.17 and newer, crypt() will return NULL if
31+ * it was called using an invalid salt format. Previous
32+ * versions of glibc would go ahead and compute a DES hash
33+ * using the invalid salt. The salt value in this case was
34+ * always '!'. We might arrive at this place if either the
35+ * user does not exist, or if the hash in /etc/shadow doesn't
36+ * have the proper magic for one of the supported hash
37+ * formats (for example, if the account was locked using
38+ * "passwd -l". To handle this situation, we will recompute
39+ * the hash using a hardcoded salt as was previously done
40+ * by glibc. The hash returned by the old glibc function
41+ * always began with "!!", which would ensure that it could
42+ * never match an otherwise valid hash in /etc/shadow that
43+ * was disabled with a "!" at the beginning (since the second
44+ * character would never be "!" as well), so we will also
45+ * prepend the resulting hash with "!!". Finally, in case
46+ * crypt() failed for some other reason we will check to see
47+ * if we still get NULL from crypt even with the valid salt
48+ * and will fail if that's the case.
49+ */
50+
51+ /* Recalculate hash using a hardcoded, valid SHA512 salt: */
52+ cp = crypt (clear, "$6$8IIcy/1EPOk/");
53+
54+ if (!cp) {
55+ perror ("crypt");
56+ exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
57+ } else {
58+ sprintf (cipher, "!!%s", cp);
59+ return cipher;
60+ }
61 }
62
63 /* The GNU crypt does not return NULL if the algorithm is not