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Date:      Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:22:45 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-10@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r287084 - in stable/10/usr.sbin/pw: . tests
Message-ID:  <86lh9bubru.fsf@desk.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20151203083556.GF20169@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> (Baptiste Daroussin's message of "Thu, 3 Dec 2015 09:35:56 %2B0100")
References:  <201508232142.t7NLgSXX033227@repo.freebsd.org> <867fkxcbq9.fsf@desk.des.no> <20151202215958.GD20169@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <86egf4uegi.fsf@desk.des.no> <20151203083556.GF20169@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>

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Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > Or a fix can be made, if you provide an example of the failing case, I
> > > would be able to fix it and add it to the regression tests.
> > Any operation that specifies a GECOS containing multibyte characters.
> Right so it is fixed.

Not really.  After your latest commit, it will appear to work, but it
will still be broken.  A proper fix would entail converting all input to
wide strings, validating it as such and converting back before output.
Also, the validation is based on blacklisting specific characters which
are considered unsafe instead of whitelisting those that are known to be
safe.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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