Bug 1359138 (CVE-2016-6262) - CVE-2016-6262 libidn: Out-of-bounds read when reading zero byte as input
Summary: CVE-2016-6262 libidn: Out-of-bounds read when reading zero byte as input
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-6262
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1359146 1359147 1359148
Blocks: 1359151
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Reported: 2016-07-22 11:43 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:53 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libidn 1.33
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Last Closed: 2016-07-29 04:57:17 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-07-22 11:43:51 UTC 
An out-of-bounds read was found in libidn when reading zero byte as input.

Upstream fix:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=5e3cb9c7b5bf0ce665b9d68f5ddf095af5c9ba60

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/124
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-07-22 12:05:11 UTC 
Created libidn tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1359146]
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-07-22 12:05:17 UTC 
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 20:18:26 UTC 
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 5 Fedora Update System 2016-08-08 23:56:23 UTC 
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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