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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:54:33 +0100
From: Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: update on CVE-2008-5718
New patch attached, the old one was missing spaces.
Hope the blacklist is complete now...
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:21:57AM +0100, Thomas Biege wrote:
> Hello Nico,
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:32:07AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I just did a security update for CVE-2008-5718 and since the
> > description is not really verbose I thought I'd share what I
> > found in case anyone else is working on that.
> ...
> > Cheers
> > Nico
> > P.S. The patch I used can be found on:
> > http://people.debian.org/~nion/nmu-diff/netatalk-2.0.3-11_2.0.3-11+lenny1.patch
>
> 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.)
>
>
>
> --
> Bye,
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>, SUSE LINUX, Security Support & Auditing
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
> --
> Hamming's Motto:
> The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
> -- Richard W. Hamming
--
Bye,
Thomas
--
Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>, SUSE LINUX, Security Support & Auditing
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
--
Hamming's Motto:
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
-- Richard W. Hamming
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