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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-582-1 libidn -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

02 Aug 2016

Affected Packages:

libidn

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-8948, CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libidn. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2015-8948

  When idn is reading one zero byte as input an out-of-bounds-read occurred.

• CVE-2016-6261

  An out-of-bounds stack read is exploitable in idna_to_ascii_4i.

• CVE-2016-6263

  stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize reject invalid UTF-8, causes a crash.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.25-2+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libidn packages.

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