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Re: [Lynx-dev] [pkg-lynx-maint] CVE-2016-9179 (invalid URL parsing with


From: David Woolley
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] [pkg-lynx-maint] CVE-2016-9179 (invalid URL parsing with '?')
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:05:53 +0000
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On 16/11/16 07:41, Axel Beckert wrote:
That's my point: The case http://address@hidden/ doesn't
have a user name -- it just has a host name and a query string.

It does have a user part:

user             =  1*( unreserved / escaped / user-unreserved )
user-unreserved  =  "&" / "=" / "+" / "$" / "," / ";" / "?" / "/"

As you can see, "?" is a user-unreserved character and therefore allowable in a user part.



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