oss-security - Re: update on CVE-2008-5718

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Message-ID: <20090114082157.GA18040@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:21:57 +0100
From: Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: update on CVE-2008-5718

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.)



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Bye,
     Thomas
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