Bug#1104054: CVE-2025-46421 tests backporting

Sean Whitton spwhitton at spwhitton.name
Tue May 20 11:07:33 BST 2025


Hello,

On Mon 19 May 2025 at 11:14am +01, Sean Whitton wrote:

> I note that Ubuntu decided to go ahead and upload the fix without the
> tests.  One other possibility is that we use (only) the reporter's
> exploit PoC to test this instead, but that's less good for LTS & ELTS
> because it's completely manual.
>
> If you don't have time to look at this soon then I'll see about getting
> the PoC to compile.  Let me know.  Thanks!

I was able to compile it but it doesn't reproduce the issue.
The PoC never sends any Authorization header.

I think I need somebody else's opinion on whether to proceed with the
fix without backporting the tests.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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