From: Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo <cgoesc2@wgu.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 17:02:30 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: login: duplicate --shell argument to avoid nulling through explicit_bzero()
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8fb291f942382a460b514abd891871e657d94cfb;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

login: duplicate --shell argument to avoid nulling through explicit_bzero()

Addresses: #3855
Signed-off-by: Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo <cgoesc2@wgu.edu>
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diff --git a/login-utils/login.c b/login-utils/login.c
index 3cd1d528b..604d63c23 100644
--- a/login-utils/login.c
+++ b/login-utils/login.c
@@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ static void initialize(int argc, char **argv, struct login_context *cxt)
 			break;
 
 		case 's':
-			cxt->shell_arg = optarg;
+			cxt->shell_arg = xstrdup(optarg);
 			break;
 
 		case 'V':