Re: Imminent bugfix release (1.97.1)

[Bean]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> A security problem [1] was found in our password-checking routines,
> which affects GRUB 1.97.  I'll be releasing 1.97.1 tomorrow.
>
> Additionally, I cherry-picked fixes for a few problems that should
> have made it to the release, like GNU/Hurd support (see NEWS file
> for details).  The release branch is available in:
>
>  sftp://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/grub/branches/release_1_97/
>
> If you have time, please test this tree, specially password support,
> to help find possible problems.

Hi,

Actually, the function of grub_auth_strcmp puzzles me, why would it
need to wait 100 ms to return the result ? grub_auth_strcmp is used in
many place, so the authorized could take some time to complete. And
there is a hidden issue in it, grub_auth_strcmp can accept NULL
pointer as input, but grub_strcmp doesn't check for NULL pointer.

-- 
Bean

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