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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 19:40:06 +0000
From: Joe Malcolm <jmalcolm@...eus.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE Request: jabberd remote information disclosure

Was a CVE assigned for this?

Joe

Thijs Alkemade writes:
>Hello,
>
>A buffer overflow was found in the XMPP server jabberd2 when normalizing
>strings that can lead to remote information disclosure [1]. When parsing a
>JID, jabberd2 version 2.3.2 and below truncate the data but do not verify
>whether the result is valid UTF8 before passing it to libidn. If the data ends
>with an unterminated multi-byte UTF8 sequence then libidn may copy data past
>the buffer into the result. This can be exploited by remote clients or remote
>servers.
>
>Could you please assign a CVE for this issue?
>
>[1] = https://github.com/jabberd2/jabberd2/issues/85
>
>Best regards,
>Thijs Alkemade

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