util-linux/SOURCES/0092-last-use-full-size-of-...

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From f435f80b9ae88caf9fe8af2e9b705dc8296ad6f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:22:23 +0100
Subject: last: use full size of the username
utmp uses 32 bytes for username, last(1) truncates it to 31 when calls getpwnam().
Reported-by: Radka Skvarilova <rskvaril@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160321
Upstream: http://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/commit/4b646f01600a5efcf16e8e8991010b49b250bdfe
---
login-utils/last.1 | 4 ++++
login-utils/last.c | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/login-utils/last.1 b/login-utils/last.1
index 94b4ed012..9169abd35 100644
--- a/login-utils/last.1
+++ b/login-utils/last.1
@@ -178,6 +178,10 @@ files to be used, they can be created with a simple
.BR touch (1)
command (for example,
.IR "touch /var/log/wtmp" ).
+
+The utmp file format uses fixed sizes of strings, which means that very long strings are
+impossible to store in the file and impossible to display by last. The usual limits are 32
+bytes for a user and line name and 256 bytes for a hostname.
.SH FILES
/var/log/wtmp
.br
diff --git a/login-utils/last.c b/login-utils/last.c
index 8f7c36984..41ce03894 100644
--- a/login-utils/last.c
+++ b/login-utils/last.c
@@ -602,12 +602,14 @@ static int is_phantom(const struct last_control *ctl, struct utmpx *ut)
{
struct passwd *pw;
char path[sizeof(ut->ut_line) + 16];
+ char user[sizeof(ut->ut_user) + 1];
int ret = 0;
if (ut->ut_tv.tv_sec < ctl->boot_time.tv_sec)
return 1;
- ut->ut_user[sizeof(ut->ut_user) - 1] = '\0';
- pw = getpwnam(ut->ut_user);
+
+ mem2strcpy(user, ut->ut_user, sizeof(ut->ut_user), sizeof(user));
+ pw = getpwnam(user);
if (!pw)
return 1;
snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/proc/%u/loginuid", ut->ut_pid);
--
2.39.1