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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3658-1 libidn -- security update

Date Reported:

01 Sep 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:

Hanno Boeck discovered multiple vulnerabilities in libidn, the GNU library for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service against an application using the libidn library (application crash).

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.29-1+deb8u2.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.33-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.33-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libidn packages.