Bug#901572: acccheck: CVE-2018-12268: Patch proposal

Raphael Hertzog hertzog at debian.org
Mon Sep 3 10:07:08 BST 2018


Control: affects 904200 acccheck

On Mon, 03 Sep 2018, phil at reseau-libre.net wrote:
> I've updated the acccheck.pl behavior to correct (i hope) the
> CVE-2018-12268. User and password input files are sanitized before any use
> in the generated commandline string. The patch is given attached to this
> mail.

FWIW, I requested the removal of the package a while ago:
https://bugs.debian.org/904200

And this is not the only security issue in that script... there's no point
in spending any time on this issue.

Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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