Dovecot v2.3.17 released

infoomatic infoomatic at gmx.at
Thu Nov 4 10:14:05 UTC 2021


just for reference https://trojansource.codes/


On 04.11.21 10:50, lists wrote:
> The unicode hack is in the comments. Google "Trojan Source". Having never dealt with Hebrew and Arabic, it was news to me there is a right to left feature in Unicode.
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> TWIT Security Now (MP3): SN 843: Trojan Source - Chrome 0-days, Windows 11 confusion, VoIP DDos attacks, Dune https://pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/track/E91833/cdn.twit.tv/audio/sn/sn0843/sn0843.mp3#t=4768 [01:19:28]
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> Or look for the paper. Hopefully this isn't too off topic.
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>    Original Message
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> From: reinob at bbmk.org
> Sent: November 4, 2021 2:16 AM
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Reply-to: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: Dovecot v2.3.17 released
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> On Thu, 4 Nov 2021, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
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>> Please convert all source code to ASCII. If it fails to compile, then it may
>> have a trojan hiding in Unicode clothing.
> Did you check yourself?
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> The only source code files which contain non-7-bit-ASCII characters are
> 1. src/lib-storage/list/mailbox-list-index-status.c
>    * Opportunistic function to see ïf we can extract guid from mailbox path */
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> i.e. in a /* comment */, and it's 8-bit ASCII not even UTF-anything.
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> 2. src/lib-mail/test-qp-encoder.c
> which defines binary data.
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> I don't think any C compiler allows Unicode in the code itself (instructions,
> variables names, etc.)
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> Cheers.


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