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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 03:53:12 +1100 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall <dave@...sfall.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2021-42574: rustc 1.56.0 and bidirectional-override
codepoints in source code
On Mon, 1 Nov 2021, Pietro Albini wrote:
> The Rust Security Response WG was notified of a security concern
> affecting source code containing "bidirectional override" Unicode
> codepoints: in some cases the use of those codepoints could lead to the
> reviewed code being different than the compiled code.
[...]
Am I the only one here who remembers the original ALGOL specification that
what is printed on the paper is the language?
We've seen the same in the DNS, so I guess that it was only a matter of
time.
-- Dave
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