Bug 24231

Summary:	[CVE-2008-6792] users-admin sets up maximum 8 character password
Product:	system-tools-backends	Reporter:	Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27>
Component:	users	Assignee:	Carlos Garnacho Parro <carlosg>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Carlos Garnacho Parro <carlosg>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Fix issues in do_get_use_md5() to return 1 when appropriate

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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