GHSA-2FVJ-HGJ9-J2GR Eclipse Jetty Digest Authentication: ISO-8859-1 lossy encoding allows authentication bypass via character substitution

Summary The DigestAuthentication.apply method in Jetty's HTTP client uses getBytesStandardCharsets.ISO88591 at three locations lines 171, 179, 196 to compute Digest auth response hashes. ISO-8859-1 silently replaces any character above U+00FF Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic, Arabic, Emoji, etc. with...

EUVD-2017-16808

Malware in sbrugna...

squid: Out-of-bounds write error may lead to Denial of Service

A flaw was found in Squid. An out-of-bounds write can be triggered when an Edge Side Includes ESI variable is assigned to a value not in the standard ASCII range, for example, multi-byte characters. This flaw allows a trusted server to crash Squid while processing an ESI response content, resulti...

[slackware-security] infozip

New infozip packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/infozip-6.0-i586-4slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Added some patches that should fix extracting archives with non-latin characte...

CVE-2017-7833

Some Arabic and Indic vowel marker characters can be combined with Latin characters in a domain name to eclipse the non-Latin character with some font sets on the addressbar. The non-Latin character will not be visible to most viewers. This allows for domain spoofing attacks because these combine...