Re: Yes, Rat's nest

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From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 03:40:34 CDT


Erland Sommarskog said:
>> (BTW, in the last 2 years there are cases where bad unicode
>> implementation was responsible for security problems in MicroSoft's IIS,
>> so saying there are no normalization/encoding issues seems premature.)
> Were these issues related to normalization?

Or were they related to bad handling of UTF-8 "overlong" sequences ? This
is a known security hole, and is why all software handling UTF-8 *MUST*
detect overlong sequences.

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