Bug 1764780 (CVE-2019-18224) - CVE-2019-18224 libidn2: heap-based buffer overflow in idn2_to_ascii_4i in lib/lookup.c
Summary: CVE-2019-18224 libidn2: heap-based buffer overflow in idn2_to_ascii_4i in lib...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-18224
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1674201 1764781 1764782 1764783 1764784 1768392
Blocks: 1764786
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Reported: 2019-10-23 17:40 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-10-25 22:12 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: libidn2 2.1.0
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Last Closed: 2021-10-25 22:12:30 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-10-23 17:40:34 UTC 
idn2_to_ascii_4i in lib/lookup.c in GNU libidn2 before 2.1.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow via a long domain string.

Reference:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=12420

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/libidn/libidn2/commit/e4d1558aa2c1c04a05066ee8600f37603890ba8c
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-10-23 17:40:55 UTC 
Created libidn2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1764782]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1764781]


Created mingw-libidn2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1764784]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1764783]
Comment 2 Robert Scheck 2019-10-23 17:47:59 UTC 
Is there a specific reason for bug #1764781 and bug #1764782, as libidn2-2.2.0-1 (or later) is shipped on all Fedora and EPEL branches for months now…
Comment 3 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-10-23 18:33:40 UTC 
(In reply to Robert Scheck from comment #2)
> Is there a specific reason for bug #1764781 and bug #1764782, as
> libidn2-2.2.0-1 (or later) is shipped on all Fedora and EPEL branches for
> months now…

Hi Robert,

You can close the bug #1764781 and bug #1764782 since it's not affected.
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2019-11-04 10:12:00 UTC 
Analysis:

This is essentially an overflow in the idn2_to_ascii_4i() function which converts zero terminated input Unicode (UCS-4) string. to ASCII strings and can be triggered with a very long input strings. 
Note: This function is however deprecated in newer versions of the library and replaced by: idn2_to_ascii_4i2()
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