hardimankevin@yahoo.com wrote:

Full_Name: Kevin Hardiman Version: 2.3.27 OS: Linux (Mandriva 2007) URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (24.90.130.182)

Using the very simple alias below, OpenLDAP will crash every time it is dereferenced:

dn: uid=test,ou=Users,ou=bladiant,ou=smb,ou=Core Services,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: alias objectclass: extensibleObject uid: test aliasedObjectName: uid=test,ou=Users,dc=example,dc=com

This error has been experience with OpenLDAP releases 2.3.6 and 2.3.27, both in the form of provided Mandriva packages. I also have seen a number of references to this error in previous releases, with no explicit fix. Please advise.

Well, considering that no one has reported any such problem during the whole time releases 2.3.6-2.3.27 were published, it's no surprise that there has been no fix yet.

There's not enough information here to reproduce the bug. What backend are you using, what other entries are in the database? In particular, does "uid=test,ou=Users,dc=example,dc=com" exist? You should provide a sample slapd.conf and minimal LDIF needed to reproduce the error.