Nagios Support Forum

On 2013-05-10 17:43, Jeff wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I discovered an issue with the latest version of Nagios from svn with my
> company's configuration. When a contactgroup definition contains both
> members and contactgroup_members, Nagios segfaults when trying to verify
> the configuration. After some debugging, I came up with a solution that
> appears to work for us.
>
> The issue is that the when Nagios is "recombobulating" the
> contactgroup_members, the call to strchr() is done with a null pointer,
> because the loop with the existing controlling expression allows for an
> extra iteration. Switching the controlling expression to use next_ptr
> allows the loop to exit when it should, because the last iteration's call
> to strchr() returns a null pointer. I'm not sure why it doesn't segfault
> when specifying either members or contactgroup_members (not both), but my
> solution appears to resolve the problem.
>
> Forgive me if there's a different way to propose a patch, as this is my
> first post to the list. The (extremely simple) patch is as follows:
>

This works well. Applied and pushed. Thanks.

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