[2922] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
krb5-libs/590: des_read_pw_string in libdes425
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Wed May 13 12:49:28 1998
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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 12:43:11 -0400 (EDT)
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>Number: 590
>Category: krb5-libs
>Synopsis: des_read_pw_string() is not backward-compatible
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: krb5-unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: unknown
>Arrival-Date: Wed May 13 12:44:00 EDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Greg Hudson
>Organization:
MIT
>Release: 1.0pl1
>Environment:
System: NetBSD snorklewacker.mit.edu 1.3.1 NetBSD 1.3.1 (ATHENA) #0: Mon Apr 27 17:21:42 EDT 1998 nathanw@antisnork.mit.edu:/u1/var/tmp/sys-1.3.1/arch/i386/compile/ATHENA i386
>Description:
libdes425 is supposed to provide backward compatibility with the krb4
libdes. Unfortunately, des_read_pw_string() is not compatible; in
both MIT Kerberos and CNS, the fourth argument is a flag "verify"
(which verifies with a prompt "Verifying, please re-enter <first
prompt>"). In libdes425, the fourth argument is a second prompt to
use when verifying, or NULL if verification is not to be done.
>How-To-Repeat:
Compile the CNS kpasswd against the krb4 compatibility libraries. Watch
it dump core.
>Fix:
None provided, although it's fairly simple.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
