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Bug#959231: security-tracker: Proxy Error on CVE-2020-11565 tracker page



* Salvatore Bonaccorso:

> Hi Florian,
>
> On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 02:33:21PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Salvatore Bonaccorso:
>> 
>> > Hi Florian,
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 02:11:50PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> >> * Florian Weimer:
>> >> 
>> >> > * Francesco Poli:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Please note that the CVE is mentioned in [DSA-4667-1].
>> >> >>
>> >> >> [DSA-4667-1]: <https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00071.html>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What's wrong with that tracker page?
>> >> >
>> >> > It's something in the NVD data that breaks the HTML escaping.
>> >> 
>> >> This patch adds basic Unicode support to the web framework.  I'm not
>> >> sure if it is the right direction to move in, but it fixes the issue.
>> >> 
>> >> An alternative fix would be to change the NVD importer not to put
>> >> Unicode strings into the database, by encoding them as byte strings
>> >> first.
>> >
>> > Do you want to deploy that or rather investigate an alternative?
>> 
>> I'd appreciate if you could spot-check the changes (e.g., do we still
>> do HTML escaping properly?) and deploy it.  It looks like I have
>> forgotten how to do it.
>
> Looks good to me, and yes can deploy it if you want me to. Please have
> a look at at attache git format-patch'ed version if you agree with the
> slight rewrite, since I do not want to commit something in your name
> you would not agree with).

Still looks fine.

Signed-off-by: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>


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