Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libidn package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.93% (83rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-LIBIDN-1943056
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 23 Feb 2015
Introduced: 23 Feb 2015
CVE-2015-2059 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7
libidn
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libidn
package and not the libidn
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context-dependent attackers to read system memory and possibly have other unspecified impact via invalid UTF-8 characters in a string, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72736
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=2e97c279
- https://github.com/jabberd2/jabberd2/issues/85
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2059
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3578
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162537.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162549.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/25
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00042.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00098.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3068-1