Protect against small overread in SASLprep validation

Jacob Champion <jchampion@postgresql.org>

Commit: 5d61bdd11448bd8e61ed12df07ae8b5064772a48
Author: Jacob Champion <jchampion@postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-02-06T19:08:24Z
Releases: 17.8
Protect against small overread in SASLprep validation

(This is a cherry-pick of 390b3cbbb, which I hadn't realized wasn't
backpatched. It was originally reported to security@ and determined not
to be a vulnerability; thanks to Stanislav Osipov for noticing the
omission in the back branches.)

In case of torn UTF8 in the input data we might end up going
past the end of the string since we don't account for length.
While validation won't be performed on a sequence with a NULL
byte it's better to avoid going past the end to beging with.
Fix by taking the length into consideration.

Reported-by: Stanislav Osipov <stasos24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOYmi+mTnmM172g=_+Yvc47hzzeAsYPy2C4UBY3HK9p-AXNV0g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14

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