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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:42:43 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kurt@...fried.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>
Cc: coley@...us.mitre.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: qemu-kvm: Setting VNC password to
 empty string silently disables all authentication

> Upstream changes have introduced a flaw by disabling all authentication when
> the password was cleared with upstream commit [1].
>
> [1]
> http://www.qemu.com/qemu.git/commit/?id=52c18be9e99dabe295321153fda7fce9f76647ac"

Confirmed vulnerable in qemu-kvm source code 0.10.6, fixed in 0.11.0

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/qemu-kvm/

-- 
Kurt Seifried
kurt@...fried.org
skype: 1-703-879-3176

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