full-disclosure - Re: noise about full-width encoding bypass?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <174921992.20070522163354@SECURITY.NNOV.RU>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:33:54 +0400
From: 3APA3A <3APA3A@...URITY.NNOV.RU>
To: "Brian Eaton" <eaton.lists@...il.com>
Cc: Full-Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	Web Security <websecurity@...appsec.org>
Subject: Re: noise about full-width encoding bypass?

Dear Brian Eaton,

--Monday, May 21, 2007, 11:28:27 PM, you wrote to ascii@...amail.com:

BE> Given how few application platforms decode full-width unicode to ASCII
BE> equivalents, is there a case to be made that those application
BE> platforms that do decide this conversion is a good idea are broken?

BE> Put another way: should this be considered a bug in ASP.NET?

BE> Regards,
BE> Brian

Converting  e.g.  Unicode  full-width  'A'  into ASCII 'A' is definitely
valid and expected behavior. A bug is using unfiltered input in HTML/SQL
generation.  As for inability of content filter to catch this situation,
it's just one more way to bypass it. See

http://securityvulns.com/advisories/content.asp
http://securityvulns.com/advisories/bypassing.asp

-- 
~/ZARAZA http://securityvulns.com/
Итак, я буду краток. (Твен)

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/