Bug 129258 - kdeprintfax handles non-alphabetic characters improperly
Summary: kdeprintfax handles non-alphabetic characters improperly
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kdebase
Version: 2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-08-05 16:15 UTC by Ed Swierk
Modified: 2008-08-02 23:40 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-10-25 19:41:17 UTC
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Description Ed Swierk 2004-08-05 16:15:22 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040612 Firefox/0.8

Description of problem:
Two problems:

1. The "Name" and "Number" fields in the Personal Settings dialog
allow the user to type any character, even though the set of
characters supported by the Fax standards is limited.  For example,
the "Number" field should allow only numbers, spaces and + signs.

2. When passing the contents of "Name" and "Number" to efax, certain
characters like spaces and + signs are misinterpreted by the
/usr/bin/fax shell script, even though they are surrounded by single
quoes on the command line.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-3.2.2-4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set the "Number" field to something like "+1 234 567 8901", which
is a legal fax number string
2. Set the Fax number, and add a file
3. Press the Send Fax button
4. Click Fax : View log, and notice the error messages from
/usr/bin/fax complaining about 234 being a bad command.

Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2005-04-26 16:11:40 UTC
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for
security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please
reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a
security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or
in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.

Comment 2 John Thacker 2006-10-25 19:41:17 UTC
Closed per above message and lack of response.  Note that FC2 is not even
supported by Fedora Legacy currently.


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