no validation of target name in gss_init_sec_context

Bug #1444045 reported by Sam Hartman
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GSS-API Web
Fix Released
Critical
Mark Donnelly

Bug Description

As discussed, an attacker can impersonate a user if the attacker can control the target name in gss_init_sec_context.
It's important that we validate the form of this name.
This validation needs to:

* Be done in browser-independent code (preferably javascript, although there are ways of doing this in c+?+
* be done in a manner that allows us to easily add new name forms in the future
* be done in a manner that allows us to add new validations of other function inputs in the future
* be done in trusted code

Sam Hartman (hartmans)
Changed in gssweb:
milestone: none → 1.0
information type: Public → Public Security
Changed in gssweb:
assignee: nobody → Mark Donnelly (meadmaker)
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Margaret Cullen (mrw42)
Changed in gssweb:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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