password bug on vnc 4.2 (last release 12 may 2006) Free Edition

[Alex Pelts]

Everybody does. In fact it is described in documentation as a feature.

Regards,
Alex

Andris Falcsn wrote:
> Hi, there. Yesterday I was sitted on my chair doing some test with my vnc and I discover a serious bug in the password request.
>   This is the scenario:
>   2 desktop computer over internet both with windows xp.
>   Server: running last release of vnc (Free Edition). Password with 10 characters long
>   Client: connecting via Internet Explorer
>   The error occurs when the password is greater than 8 characters.
>   Steps:
>   1 - Connect to the url and port
>   2 - The the java application loaded and when ask for password
>   3 - Put 8 characters corresponding to the 8 first characters of the password and the you can complete with garbage
>   4 - And the best of all if that connect to the server perfectly 
>   I post it here because i couldn4t find any link to send directly to developer team
>   Does anybody get the same error?
>    
>   Andres
> 
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