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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 02:41:56 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: me@...jsalkema.de
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: jabberd remote information disclosure

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> 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.

> https://github.com/jabberd2/jabberd2/issues/85

> the stringprep functions from libidn require the input to be valid UTF8

> The libidn documentation claims "This function will not read or write
> to characters outside that size." about the length of the buffer that
> needs to be specified, but this is not true,

We think this requires one CVE ID for jabberd2 and one CVE ID for
libidn, because the issues could be addressed independently. For
example, if only jabberd2 is changed, then libidn still has an
out-of-bounds read issue with input from other programs. If only
libidn were changed and (for example) the change was to fail on
invalid UTF-8 data, then that would have a DoS effect on jabberd2.

Did you believe that libidn does not have a vulnerability on
its own?

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CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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