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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-18224: Security patch for libidn2 (ALAS-2019-1327)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-18224: Security patch for libidn2 (ALAS-2019-1327)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/21/2019
Created
12/24/2019
Added
12/20/2019
Modified
12/20/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-libidn2

References

  • ALAS-2019-1327
  • USN-4168-1
  • CVE-2019-18224

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