Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libidn package, versions <1.33


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-LIBIDN-470962
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed22 Jul 2016
  • creditHanno Böck

Introduced: 22 Jul 2016

CVE-2015-8948  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libidn to version 1.33 or higher.

Overview

libidn is an Encode/decode i18n domains using Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. The vulnerability is due to the use of fgets with fixed-size buffer, leading to out-of-bounds read and allows the attackers to get sensitive memory information .

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