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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-95689

Missing overflow handling allows alternative Punycode-encoded domain name representations

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P2: Important
    • 6.2.0 Beta3
    • 6.2.0 Beta2
    • Core: URL Handling
    • None
    • fe9ddbe197d6ce4ff2634415c621c8fd9fe5810a (qt/qtbase/dev) e4c90e81fe1cd34bd28bd4b21e4b8461e83e8525 (qt/qtbase/6.2)
    • Qt6_Foundation_Sprint 39, Qt6_Foundation_Sprint 40

    Description

      The Punycode decoding in Qt seems to be missing overflow handling that allows different normalized URLs to be decoded to the same Unicode string without errors:

      qDebug() << QUrl::fromAce("xn--5p32g.com");
      // "a.com"
      

      This should not be allowed:

      % idn --idna-to-unicode xn--5p32g.com
      xn--5p32g.com
      % idn2 --decode xn--5p32g.com             
      idn2: decode: string contains invalid punycode data
      

      This particular test case does not work anymore with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/363213 applied, but the bug is still there:

      qDebug() << QUrl::fromAce("xn--400595c.com");
      // "U+10300.com" (the same as "xn--097c.com", the code is escaped because of Jira limitations)
      
      % idn --idna-to-unicode xn--400595c.com
      xn--400595c.com
      

      The fix is slightly more complicated than adding the range check because of how the code is organized.

      The following code was used to generate the test vectors:

      from encodings import punycode
      
      # xn--5p32g.com == a.com
      code = 0x61; i = 1
      # xn--400595c.com == xn--097c.com
      # code = 67175168; i = 0
      digit = 1114112 * i - 128 + code
      deltas = [digit]
      extended = punycode.generate_integers(0, deltas)
      print(f'xn--{extended.decode()}')
      

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