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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:17:23 +0000
From: Brian Stafford <brian@...fford.uklinux.net>
To: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, libesmtp@...fford.uklinux.net,
	security@...ntu.com, Pawel Salek <pawsa@...ochem.kth.se>,
	jskarvad@...hat.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: libesmtp does not check NULL bytes
 in commonName

Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Brian Stafford wrote:
>   
>> Ludwig Nussel wrote:
>>     
>>> Brian Stafford wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I think the best approach is to apply Pawel's patch as this is the 
>>>>         
>>> I must have missed that patch. Could you re-post it?
>>>   
>>>       
>> It's available at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=399131
>>     
>
> Doesn't that lack a null byte check for subjAltNames?
>
> cu
> Ludwig
>
>   
You're right.  I'll look over your patch again.  One small issue I have 
is that declarations are interspersed with code which is not standard 
pre-C99, although if speed is of the essence this can be ignored as I 
will get an official libESMTP release out soon.

Regards
Brian

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