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[Bug locale/2373] iconv allows encoding characters above U+10FFFF in UTF-8
- From: "bruno at clisp dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 22:40:42 +0000
- Subject: [Bug locale/2373] iconv allows encoding characters above U+10FFFF in UTF-8
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- References: <bug-2373-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2373
Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org> changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org> ---
Re comment 1:
> Nobody has ever shown any evidence why this is a bad idea.
Validing input is rule #1 among the "secure coding practices", e.g.
https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/Top+10+Secure+Coding+Practices
Also frequently mentioned on http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/
Related attacks exist, e.g.
https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/80.html
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