Re: [LFN22155902] Bugreport: coreutils-6.5 ls -l and uid lookup failure

[Bob Proulx]

Nicholas Stallard wrote:
> I think I may have found a bug in the current ls implementation.

Yes.  Thanks for the bug report.  Unfortunately ls in coreutils 6.5
had a serious bug and would dereference a null pointer when listing a
file when the number id or group id had no associated name.  This
warranted a new version 6.6 to be released.

You can read the details of this particular problem here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-11/msg00153.html

Unfortunately the latest news is so recently that the mailing list
archive software has not processed the message yet.  It runs
periodically and has not swept through these lists yet.  But in a
short time the messages from the mailing list announcing this will be
available here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2006-11/threads.html

And here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-11/threads.html

Bob