package moreutils
tag 440951 patch
thanks
Attached is a patch to fix bug #440951 (isutf8 accepts overlong UTF-8
sequences) in isutf8, part of the moreutils package. I ended
re-implementing the core logic of the program, but on the other hand it
is now clearer than before (read: I couldn't
Package: moreutils
Version: 0.20
Severity: normal
$ man utf-8 | grep 'Security' -A 9 | sed -e '1d; s/^ *//'
The Unicode and UCS standards require that producers of UTF-8 shall use
the shortest form possible, for example, producing a two-byte sequence
with first byte 0xc0 is non-conforming.
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