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Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libidn  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1610-LIBIDN-620289
  • published7 Sept 2016
  • disclosed7 Sept 2016
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Introduced: 7 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-6262  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libidn package and not the libidn package as distributed by Ubuntu.

idn in libidn before 1.33 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information by reading a zero byte as input, which triggers an out-of-bounds read, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8948.

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