Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libidn Open this link in a new tab package, versions <1.33
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-COCOAPODS-LIBIDN-470966
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published
2 Oct 2019
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disclosed
20 Jul 2016
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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.