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Message-Id: <E3B21524-35E5-470E-811A-E1083454B56E@aevum.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:14:28 +0100
From: Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer@...um.de>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com,
 danielgutson@...il.com
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] CVE-2025-26519: musl libc: input-controlled out-of-bounds
 write primitive in iconv()

On Feb 13, 2025, at 23:28, Daniel Gutson <danielgutson@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> Curious: is there any info about how this was discovered?

The bug was discovered with basic fuzz testing. As libxml2 maintainer, I found more and more issues in various iconv implementations by accident which is a strong indicator that all this code isn't tested enough. The iconv API is also trivial to fuzz, so it seemed like a nice weekend project.

Nick

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