Re:Why did the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability happen
by cratermoon on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:27PM
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One of the (possibly first?) things the LibreSSL people did after forking OpenSSL was to enable -Wall, -Werror, -Wextra, -Wuninitialized on the code[1]. Many years ago we'd look at compiler (and linter) warnings with a skeptical eye, but these days, they really mean something. That alone smoked out a lot of lurking problems.
Halfway through it's about 125 changed files, > 1000 changes. look at the WIP commit. The API is insane. 50% of args are unused. All the structs and vtables updates are uninitialized, ie missing methods.
https://github.com/rurban/openssl/commits/Werror