Bug 757672

Summary:	swaks: Passwords displayed in unfiltered / plaintext form when -a (authenticate) CLI option used [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	swaks	Assignee:	Jason Tibbitts <j>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	15	CC:	j
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2011-11-28 11:18:16 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	757666

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-28 11:01:12 UTC

This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected Fedora
versions.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

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[bug automatically created by: add-tracking-bugs]

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-28 11:18:16 UTC

Red Hat Security Response Team has decided not to treat this deficiency as to be a security flaw. Even if password would be filtered in swaks CLI / redirected file handle output, it's possible (for some methods) to retrieve it directly via SMTP AUTH output. So upcoming upstream change is more feature add-on, than a real fix for a security flaw.