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Re: [ GLSA 200503-12 ] Hashcash: Format string vulnerability

From: Adam Back (adamcypherspace.org)
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 00:19:30 CDT


In-Reply-To: <87r7irrzne.fsfevinrude.uhoreg.ca>

Hi

Two notes:

- the format string security bug is now fixed in hashcash-1.17

- Hubert is correct that the bug was not in hashcash-1.13, it was introduced in hashcash 1.14

Cheers

Adam

>Just to note, version 1.13 of hashcash (incidentally, the version that's
>in Debian testing) doesn't seem to be vulnerable, as it doesn't contain
>the buggy line that Travis found. I'm not sure exactly when the bug was
>introduced.