[imp] Password disclosure

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:46:58 -0500


Quoting Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie>:

>  imp 3.0-rc2 leaves tons of files with names like
> 
>   sess_7992dce8b32fab7400409226f3bef63d
> 
>  behind in /tmp. These files are chmod 0600 and owned by the user id that
>  runs httpd.
> 
>  These files contain session details, among them the user passwords
>  in cleartext!

I implemented use of the Secret class for Horde credentials today on the plane 
on my laptop. I'll commit it tomorrow.

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
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