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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-6261: libidn security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 7, 2016
Added
Nov 19, 2019
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

The idna_to_ascii_4i function in lib/idna.c in libidn before 1.33 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via 64 bytes of input.

Solution

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libidn
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