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| author | Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org> | 2021-01-12 15:36:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org> | 2021-01-12 15:36:09 +0000 |
| commit | ca22cc0abe93c28f3d296d99c239413bb0d079c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9551083f2f73ed3bab0cb464d008625bdb323efa /doc | |
| parent | 96d16729c2267491424478e623a492acaec6b35e (diff) | |
Auths: in plaintext authenticator, fix parsing of consecutive circuflex. Bug 2687
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog | 7 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt index 4c79e87cf..15b03eabb 100644 --- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt +++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt @@ -27824,7 +27824,14 @@ fixed_plain: client_send = ^username^mysecret .endd The lack of colons means that the entire text is sent with the AUTH -command, with the circumflex characters converted to NULs. A similar example +command, with the circumflex characters converted to NULs. +.new +Note that due to the ambiguity of parsing three consectutive circumflex characters +there is no way to provide a password having a leading circumflex. +.wen + + +A similar example that uses the LOGIN mechanism is: .code fixed_login: diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog index d9e979c33..87bf0d009 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog @@ -170,6 +170,13 @@ JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files. +JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext + authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair + was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became + ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the + documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately + after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator. + Exim version 4.94 ----------------- |