- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 05:26:36 +0000
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
A current security issue has reminded me how bad an idea it is to have NUL bytes in the middle of strings in C/POSIX enviroments so I have opened a ticket which proposes to ban %00 from serialized DisplayString in order to prevent it: https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/2615 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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