Bug 1359134 – CVE-2016-6261 libidn: Out of bounds stack read in idna_to_ascii_4i

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Bug 1359134 - (CVE-2016-6261) CVE-2016-6261 libidn: Out of bounds stack read in idna_to_ascii_4i

Summary:	CVE-2016-6261 libidn: Out of bounds stack read in idna_to_ascii_4i

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-6261

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1359146 1359147 1359148 1452750
Blocks:	1359151
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Reported:	2016-07-22 07:39 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2018-01-17 10:56 EST (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	libidn 1.33
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Last Closed:	2016-07-28 06:05:28 EDT
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-07-22 07:39:12 EDT

An out-of-bounds stack read was found in idna_to_ascii_4i.

Upstream patches:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=f20ce1128fb7f4d33297eee307dddaf0f92ac72d

test: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=9a1a7e15d0706634971364493fbb06e77e74726c
changelog: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=d4c533a5d975bf49090d3cd40acd230b8f79dd32
fix for introduced memory leak: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=11abd0e02c16f9e0b6944aea4ef0f2df44b42dd4

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/124

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-07-22 08:05:23 EDT

Created libidn tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1359146]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-07-22 08:05:29 EDT

Created mingw-libidn tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1359147]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1359148]

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-07-24 16:18:31 EDT

libidn-1.33-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-08-08 19:56:28 EDT

libidn-1.33-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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