[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-582?page=all ]
Emmanuel Lecharny reassigned DIRSERVER-582:
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Assignee: Emmanuel Lecharny
> <potential bug in password comparison
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>
> Key: DIRSERVER-582
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-582
> Project: Directory ApacheDS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.0-RC2
> Reporter: Emmanuel Lecharny
> Assigned To: Emmanuel Lecharny
>
> While stepping throgh the Bind code base, I saw that the password is compared
> using its byte[] representation :
> userPassword = ( ( String ) userPassword ).getBytes();
> ...
> credentialsMatch = ArrayUtils.isEquals( creds, userPassword );
> in SimpleAuthenticator class. The problem is that ( ( String ) userPassword
> ).getBytes() may returns a wrong string if the password contains UTF-8 chars
> but the local encoding is not UTF-8 (W$ users, mainly, who use ISO-8859-1)
> This line should be : userPassword = StringTools.getBytesUtf8( ( String )
> userPassword );
> Of course, the password *must* be contained in a UTF-8 file (server.xml must
> be declared as UTF-8 encoded)
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