New CWE for DNS domain normalization/canonicalization with trailing dot

So we have:
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/180.html

which are both, broadly speaking, catch-all buckets too broad to be of much
help.

I would like to propose a CWE for "Failure to properly handle DNS names
with or without a trailing dot", e.g.:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0832
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4963

and Sweden accidentally broke DNS for .se back in 2009 with a dot:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2529045/missing-dot-drops-sweden-off-the-internet.html

And various projects having issues with this spanning many years:
https://bugs.python.org/issue31997
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/11560


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Kurt Seifried (He/Him)
k...@seifried.org

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