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CVE-2016-6261

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Date: September 7, 2016

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (14)

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3658

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6261

Url: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libidn/2015-07/msg00016.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92070

Url: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=f20ce1128fb7f4d33297eee307dddaf0f92ac72d

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6261

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/21/4

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/20/6

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00098.html

Url: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libidn/2016-07/msg00009.html

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3068-1

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-6261

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 1.33

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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