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FreeBSD: libidn -- mulitiple vulnerabilities (Multiple CVEs)

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FreeBSD: libidn -- mulitiple vulnerabilities (Multiple CVEs)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/20/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/02/2016
Modified
03/21/2018

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(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-libidn

References

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