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Message-ID: <20221102124527.O5WVR%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:45:27 +0100
From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@...oden.eu>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: OpenSSL X.509 Email Address 4-byte
Buffer Overflow (CVE-2022-3602), X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer
Overflow (CVE-2022-3786)
...
|On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 7:57 AM Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...il.com> wrote:
|> I don't know rust, so serious question - if this same buggy punycode
The problem with punycode is punycode as such.
It should have been URL-encoded UTF-8 maybe with normal
decomposition from the start, and the DNS limits should have been
raised, all that now well over twenty years ago.
Poul-Hennig Kamp of FreeBSD, varnish etc wrote just this week on
another ML
|> The other ting to keep in mind is the immense existing codebase of
|> unix kernels et al, not to mention application code depending on
|> those kernels.
|
|This is the mistake we IT-people keep doing again and again:
|
|Forwards compatibility is /far/ more important than backwards compatibil\
|ity.
It would have been grown out by now. And many problems would
never happened, including those incompatibilities that they wanted
to avoid. My one cent.
Other than that. Sigh. C is the culprit!!
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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