Red Hat Security Blog: February 2014 archives

For many networking protocols and file formats exist which interoperate with each other. Developing an implementation for a protocol or format diverges from previous implementations in subtle ways, at least initially. Such differences can uncover previously unnoticed corner cases which are not handled properly, and sometimes reveal security vulnerabilities. For example, in the mid-90s, it was discovered that Samba's SMB client, smbclient, did not restrict user name length in the same way...