vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-cb5189eb-572f-11e6-b334-002590263bf5 (CVE-2016-6261): libidn -- multiple vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jul 31, 2016 | Dec 10, 2025 | Dec 10, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 31, 2016
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025
Description
Simon Josefsson reports: libidn: Fix out-of-bounds stack read in idna_to_ascii_4i. idn: Solve out-of-bounds-read when reading one zero byte as input. Also replaced fgets with getline. libidn: stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize reject invalid UTF-8. It was always documented to only accept UTF-8 data, but now it doesn't crash when presented with such data.
Solution
freebsd-upgrade-package-libidn
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