Security patch for kdeprintfax
Olaf Jan Schmidt
olaf at amen-online.de
Sat Dec 7 00:07:39 GMT 2002
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Hi!
I have a bug fix for a small security problem in kdeprintfax.
Variables are always replaced with quoted values, even if they are already
in quotes. The result is that the variables will be unquoted, leading to
a small security hole.
I don't think there are any real possibilities to exploit this, but it can
do no harm to fix this by unquoting all variables that are within quotes.
I copied the patch from another application where we had the same problem;
I am quite new to KDE programming and not totally sure I applied the
patch correctly. Could someone please check whether everything is OK?
I'm not subscribed to kde-core-devel, so please CC me if you have any
remarks or if you wish me to commit this.
Olaf.
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Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility Project
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