Bug 24231 - [CVE-2008-6792] users-admin sets up maximum 8 character password
Summary: [CVE-2008-6792] users-admin sets up maximum 8 character password
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: system-tools-backends
Classification: Unclassified
Component: users (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Carlos Garnacho Parro
QA Contact: Carlos Garnacho Parro
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Reported: 2009-09-30 12:44 UTC by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Modified: 2018-06-29 19:59 UTC (History)
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Attachments
Fix issues in do_get_use_md5() to return 1 when appropriate (696 bytes, patch)
2009-09-30 12:46 UTC, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 		Details | Splinter Review
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Description Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 2009-09-30 12:44:57 UTC 
Hi,

The attached patch from CVE-2008-6792 fixes an issue where users-admin limits the password length to eight characters. I'm not very good at perl, but the patch looks fine to me so I've thought I'd let you know about the issue and judge the patch by yourself.

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-6792
Comment 1 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 2009-09-30 12:46:09 UTC 
Created attachment 29955 [details] [review]
Fix issues in do_get_use_md5() to return 1 when appropriate
Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2018-06-29 19:59:38 UTC 
Project has been inactive for seven years, none of this is getting fixed. Closing remaining bugs and disabling the bz product.

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