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Bug#1132509: uidmap: getsubids look up /etc/subgid by gid instead of uid when using numerical values

From Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1132509: uidmap: getsubids look up /etc/subgid by gid instead of uid when using numerical values
Date 2026-04-01 22:50 +0200
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Package: uidmap
Version: 1:4.18.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: dsa@debian.org, wb-team@buildd.debian.org, sbuild@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 sbuild

Hi,

Since version 0.91.6, sbuild started to use getsubids to parse
/etc/subgid [1]. The format of this file is supposed to be [2]:

  login name or UID : numerical subordinate group ID : numerical subordinate group ID count

Unfortunately getsubids parses it as login name or *GID*. This breaks
when this file contains UID and when UID != GID:

$ id buildd
uid=2952(buildd) gid=1009(buildd) groupes=1009(buildd),115(sbuild)
$ grep 2952 /etc/subgid 
2952:193462272:65536
$ getsubids -g buildd
Error fetching ranges

Fortunately it seems that newgidmap parses the file correctly, so this
is not a security issue.

The following untested patch should fix the issue (which means that
get_owner_id() can be simplified as this is the only caller:

--- shadow-4.19.3.orig/lib/subordinateio.c
+++ shadow-4.19.3/lib/subordinateio.c
@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ int list_owner_ranges(const char *owner,
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	have_owner_id = get_owner_id(owner, id_type, id);
+	have_owner_id = get_owner_id(owner, ID_TYPE_UID, id);
 
 	commonio_rewind(db);
 	while (NULL != (range = commonio_next(db))) {

Regards
Aurelien

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/sbuild/-/commit/590c06cd5a76b6758606cc30fea075816edda468
[2] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/passwd/subgid.5.en.html

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Bug#1132509: uidmap: getsubids look up /etc/subgid by gid instead of uid when using numerical values Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2026-04-01 22:50 +0200
  Bug#1132509: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1132509: uidmap: getsubids look up /etc/subgid by gid instead of uid when using numerical values "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2026-04-01 23:30 +0200
    Bug#1132509: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1132509: uidmap: getsubids look up /etc/subgid by gid instead of uid when using numerical values Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2026-04-02 19:50 +0200
      Bug#1132509: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1132509: uidmap: getsubids look up /etc/subgid by gid instead of uid when using numerical values Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2026-04-02 20:00 +0200
        Bug#1132509: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1132509: uidmap: getsubids look up /etc/subgid by gid instead of uid when using numerical values Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2026-04-03 12:00 +0200
          Bug#1132509: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1132509: uidmap: getsubids look up /etc/subgid by gid instead of uid when using numerical values Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org> - 2026-04-03 17:30 +0200
          Bug#1132509: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1132509: uidmap: getsubids look up /etc/subgid by gid instead of uid when using numerical values Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2026-04-03 20:00 +0200
    Bug#1132509: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1132509: uidmap: getsubids look up /etc/subgid by gid instead of uid when using numerical values Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2026-04-02 20:00 +0200
  Bug#1132509: uidmap: getsubids look up /etc/subgid by gid instead of uid when using numerical values Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org> - 2026-04-01 23:50 +0200

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