Closed Bug 317506 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Certain ASCII characters break master password

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Password Manager
Version:
1.8.0 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252436

People

(Reporter: ronin2040, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051105 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051105 Firefox/1.5

If certain ascii characters such as alt+15 (☼) or alt+21 (§) (which both work in all forms and programs I've seen, including notepad) are set as the master password, future passwords will not be able to be unlocked.  The master password can later be removed, as those characters seem to be treated normally in the "set master password" dialog.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) set the master password to be ☼ (alt+15)
2) open a webpage with a saved password
3) enter the saved master password (☼)
Actual Results:  
Password is rejected, and user is reprompted for a master password.

Expected Results:  
The password should be accepted and treated like a normal ascii character.
Version: unspecified → 1.5 Branch
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051122 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005112221

Tried it out with §§§§§§ as a master password. Password was accepted but I could not see any passwords using this mp (like described).
Had no problem with ☼ as a master password.
Related to Core bug 258569 -> Core bug 252436?
This is fixed on trunk only (so it works for comment 1), see bug 252436. As long as there is no fixed1.8.x keyword it is not fixed on the 1.8 branch for Firefox 1.5.x.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 252436 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
(In reply to comment #3)
> This is fixed on trunk only (so it works for comment 1), see bug 252436. As
> long as there is no fixed1.8.x keyword it is not fixed on the 1.8 branch for
> Firefox 1.5.x.

You're right. Tested it for branch but pasted the trunk ID. Sorry, never again :)
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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