vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-3068-1 (CVE-2016-6263): Libidn vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Aug 24, 2016 | Aug 24, 2016 | Apr 14, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 24, 2016
Added
Aug 24, 2016
Modified
Apr 14, 2025
Description
Thijs Alkemade, Gustavo Grieco, Daniel Stenberg, and Nikos
Mavrogiannopoulos discovered that Libidn incorrectly handled invalid UTF-8
characters. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Libidn to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly disclose sensitive
memory. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2015-2059)
Hanno Böck discovered that Libidn incorrectly handled certain input. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Libidn to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8948, CVE-2016-6262,
CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263)
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-libidn11
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