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CVSSv2

CVE-2016-6261

Published: 07/09/2016 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 446
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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

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opensuse leap 42.1

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canonical ubuntu linux 12.04

canonical ubuntu linux 16.04

canonical ubuntu linux 14.04

Vendor Advisories

Several security issues were fixed in Libidn ...
Hanno Boeck discovered multiple vulnerabilities in libidn, the GNU library for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service against an application using the libidn library (application crash) For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 129-1+deb8u2 For the test ...