vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-6262: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 7, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libidn
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