finger command crashes with a segmentation fault when querying for a user

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Issue

  • finger command crashes with a segmentation fault when querying for a user:

[someone@rhel5-x64 ~]# finger someuser
Segmentation fault

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • passwd
  • finger

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