Bug 757673 - swaks: Passwords displayed in unfiltered / plaintext form when -a (authenticate) CLI option used [epel-all]
Summary: swaks: Passwords displayed in unfiltered / plaintext form when -a (authentica...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: swaks
Version: el6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Mark McKinstry
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 757666
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-28 11:01 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2011-11-28 11:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-11-28 11:18:37 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-28 11:01:19 UTC
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Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-28 11:18:37 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.


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