Re: (ITS#8027) ldapsearch -E deref=member: crashes slapd

[hyc@symas.com]

ryan@nardis.ca wrote:
> Full_Name: Ryan Tandy
> Version: master (7df548d), RE24 (2b14bbc)
> OS: Debian unstable
> URL:
> Submission from: (NULL) (142.32.208.227)
>
>
> If you use the deref control but leave the list of requested attributes empty,
> slapd crashes.
>
> ldapsearch [...] -E deref=member:

> The ldapsearch manpage implies this probably isn't valid, but it still accepted
> it. (FWIW, I tried it just to see whether it would return all attributes or
> none.) I couldn't tell from draft-ldap-deref-00 whether an empty attr list is
> considered a valid request.
>
Patched in master to reject a request with an empty attr list.

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