CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6262
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• gnu libidn (<= 1.32)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• opensuse leap 42.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=5e3cb9c7b5bf0ce665b9d68f5ddf095af5c9ba60 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00005.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00098.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/20/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/21/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92070 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3068-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libidn/2016-07/msg00009.html Vendor Advisory
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=5e3cb9c7b5bf0ce665b9d68f5ddf095af5c9ba60 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00005.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00098.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/20/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/21/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92070 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3068-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libidn/2016-07/msg00009.html Vendor Advisory