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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:18:13 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
Subject: Re: Re: CVE Request: IBUS showing passwords during
 password input

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On 11/04/2013 06:37 AM, Fuminobu TAKEYAMA wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> The behaviour started (I think) with with IBUS 1.5.4
> Yes. It happens on IBus-enabled GNOME 3.6+ with IBus 1.5.4 if
> IBus's engines (plug-ins) do not support new API introduced by
> 1.5.4.
> 
> Actually, this problem is not found by me, though. The upstream has
> already announced in [1].
> 
> An IBus developer (Mr. Fuijiwara) says in [1]: "1.5.2 or lower do
> not handle the input purpose so the typed chars are shown as the
> bug." So I think the same problem may happen also on GNOME 3.6 +
> IBus 1.5.2.
> 
> [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ibus-user/mvCHDO1BJUw
> 
> Best regards, Fuminobu TAKEYAMA
> 
> 2013/11/4 Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> One of our Japanese users found that some IBUS input methods show
>> passwords while typing them, if a special "intent" is not 
>> provided.
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847718 
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ibus-user/mvCHDO1BJUw
>> 
>> The behaviour started (I think) with with IBUS 1.5.4
>> 
>> Fuminobu Takeyama, is this correct?
>> 
>> Ciao, Marcus

Please use CVE-2013-4509 for this issue.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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