Re: [PATCH] fix '!' in scrambled passwords

Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.kmail
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday 20 April 2007 17:01, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with the recent utf8 decoder fix in Qt (CVE-2007-0242), kmail fails
> to restore passwords with '!' correctly from kconfig. the issue is
> that '!' is scrambled to 0xfffe - the unicode BOM. which is now
> rejected by the utf8-decoder.
>
> the only workaround I could think of without breaking it for everyone
> is to not encode the '!' character. this is a small information leak,
> but I can't see a way to make it working without some breakage.
>
> for KDE4 I hope the stupid, stupid, ultrastupid scrambler is fixed to
> not produce BOMs (0xffff, 0xffffe).
>
> ok?

Yes, thanks for fixing this problem.

Regards,
Ingo

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