US EditionCurl Warns GitHub About 'Malicious Unicode' Security Issue
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slashdot.orgCurl Warns GitHub About 'Malicious Unicode' Security Issue
A Curl contributor replaced an ASCII letter with a Unicode alternative in a pull request, writes Curl lead developer/founder Daniel Stenberg. And not a single human reviewer on the team (or any of their CI jobs) noticed. The change "looked identical to the ASCII version, so it was not possible to visually spot this..." The impact of changing one or more letters in a URL can of course be devastating depending on conditions... [W]e have implemente…
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