[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#540608: initscripts: wireless key stored in logs

Michael S. Gilbert michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com
Sun Aug 9 05:39:52 UTC 2009


package: initscripts
severity: important
tags: security

hello, mandriva issued the following advisory [0],[1],[2] for
initscripts. supposedly part of the user's wireless key is logged.  i
don't use WPA, so i can't verify this on debian, but it is worth checking.

[0] http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:170
[1] https://qa.mandriva.com/52149
[2] https://qa.mandriva.com/51606





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