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Re: Pre-approval for shadow 1:4.1.1-6



* Nicolas François:

> Release Managers, Security Team:
> Do you want 505071 to be fixed also for Lenny?

Do you mean "etch" instead of "lenny"?

We'd probably release a DSA once there's a patch which has some track
record, but as far as I can tell, the issue has not been fully
analyzed yet.  You guard against a symlink attack, but you don't seem
to ensure that the TTY name retrieved from the utmp file is correct in
the first place.


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