Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libidn package, versions <1.33
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.48% (77th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-COCOAPODS-LIBIDN-470966
- published 2 Oct 2019
- disclosed 20 Jul 2016
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 20 Jul 2016
CVE-2016-6261 Open this link in a new tabHow 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 due to idna_to_ascii_4i function in lib/idna.c does not properly handle 64 bytes of input, leading to out-of-bounds read and crash.
CVSS Scores
version 3.1