vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4168-1 (CVE-2019-18224): Libidn2 vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 21, 2019
Added
Oct 30, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-idn2ubuntu-upgrade-libidn2-0
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