Subject: [PATCH] Fix dereferencing the wrong variable In line 1911 in ntp_io.c, the code calls `create_interface(port, ep2)` and saves the return value in the variable `ep`, which is then checked to not be `NULL` in the next line. In case `ep` is `NULL`, the code starting in line 1923 is executed. Keep in mind that `ep` is `NULL` in this branch. The error is logged in line 1928 and the address inside `ep` is converted using `stoa` by calling `stoa(&ep->sin)`. This would normally be fine since `socktoa` catches a `NULL` pointer in line 43 in socktoa.c but `&ep->sin` isn't `NULL` but 0x24 as the field isn't the first one in the `endpt` struct. This then causes a segmentation fault by dereferencing the pointer `0x24` in line 46 as the code tries to get the address family using `AF(sock)`. This only happens when ntpd cannot create an interface which seems to happen at boot time leading to 6 crashes on my machine on average. The issue is that someone accidentally typed `ep` instead of the correct `ep2`. This bug is being tracked as 3968 and 3928 upstream. --- ntpd/ntp_io.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ntpd/ntp_io.c b/ntpd/ntp_io.c index 9d79fe4..0e761ff 100644 --- a/ntpd/ntp_io.c +++ b/ntpd/ntp_io.c @@ -1921,11 +1921,11 @@ update_interfaces( } else { DPRINT_INTERFACE(3, - (ep, "updating ", " new - FAILED")); + (ep2, "updating ", " new - FAILED")); msyslog(LOG_ERR, "cannot bind address %s", - stoa(&ep->sin)); + stoa(&ep2->sin)); } free(ep2); } -- 2.48.1