Re: [PATCH] fix '!' in scrambled passwords
Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.kmail |
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| 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 _______________________________________________ KMail developers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail-devel
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