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Re: Strange CVE situation (at least one ID should come of this)


From: Raphael Geissert <geissert () debian org>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:23:10 -0600

On Friday 26 October 2012 14:54:15 Josh Bressers wrote:
* It uses MD5 passwords
* The shadow file is directly modified without locking (which could lead
to a race condition)
* If you get the password wrong, it doesn't unlink the empty temporary
file.

By looking at the README:
* It leaks the password via the process list

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net


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