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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:25:20 +0100
From: Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: update on CVE-2008-5718
> > I am not very happy with the patch because it just filters a handful of
> > characters, a better solution would be to replace popen().
> > (I mentioned this on the netatalk-devel ML but got no answer so far.)
>
> It is no full shell escape but escapes everything that
> should be relevant for command injection. Sure, replacing
> the popen would be the better option but I was not too happy
> doing this as I guess it's more likely to break existing
> functionality with it by accident.
Yes, such a patch need to come from upstream.
--
Bye,
Thomas
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Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>, SUSE LINUX, Security Support & Auditing
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
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