[Bug 1136477] Re: qemu doesn't sanitize command line options carrying plaintext passwords

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[Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  qemu doesn't sanitize command line options carrying plaintext
  passwords

Status in QEMU:
  Expired

Bug description:
  A slight security problem exists with qemu's lack of sanitization of
  argv[], for cases where the user may have specified a plaintext
  password for spice/vnc authorization.  (Yes, it's not great to use
  this facility, but it's convenient and not grotesquely unsafe, were it
  not for this bug.)  It would be nice if those plaintext passwords were
  nuked from the command line, so a subsequent "ps awux" didn't show
  them for all to see.

  See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916279

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