Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libidn package, versions [0,1.33)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.88% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBIDN-2368560
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-6263  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libidn to version 1.33 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. The stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize function in lib/nfkc.c in libidn before 1.33 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted UTF-8 data.

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