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From: "Niccolò Belli" <darkbasic@linuxsystems.it>
To: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com>
Cc: armbru@redhat.com, secalert@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com,
	Uri Lublin <uril@redhat.com>,
	spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Always get Invalid password while trying to connect to spice server
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 15:51:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <04864360-b345-4d49-a842-8cde724b3c94@linuxsystems.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <254296205.54150897.1545827908434.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>

On mercoledì 26 dicembre 2018 13:38:28 CET, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> Yes, this looks like a format string error in the upper (not 
> into spice) layer.
>
> This potentially is a security problem.

Considering the spice server is exposed to the internet this is definitely 
worth investigating.

> The specific '%' character could be the issue, can you try 
> others ('!', '@' and
> so on) ?

I tried several other special characters and they all seems to work, expect 
for "Password&&" which gets converted to "Password&amp;&amp;" (if I type 
"Password&amp;&amp;" it works).

Niccolo'

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-27 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <110999ea-0ab9-49cb-915f-6d08cccdea3c@linuxsystems.it>
     [not found] ` <47cfb9f8-5957-7935-063b-304e3c53c268@redhat.com>
     [not found]   ` <9de9afbe-fc7b-48a0-9b2d-b756f146303d@linuxsystems.it>
2018-12-26 12:38     ` [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Always get Invalid password while trying to connect to spice server Frediano Ziglio
2018-12-27 14:51       ` Niccolò Belli [this message]
2019-01-03 22:25         ` Eric Blake
2019-01-04 10:06           ` Christophe Fergeau

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