PT-2016-6812 · Gnu+3 · Libidn+3

Hanno Böck · Published 2016-07-21 · Updated 2021-06-29 · CVE-2016-6262

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libidn versions prior to 1.33

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information by reading a zero byte as input, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.33, update to version 1.33 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1770

CVE-2016-6262

MGASA-2016-0269

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10566-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2079-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2291-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1

USN-3068-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Libidn

References · 40

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00098.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8948 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3068-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/EQDCSQNM5LICMOIEU5H63QDQ4Z436KC5 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2291-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6262 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2016-6262 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6262 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3068-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=5e3cb9c7b5bf0ce665b9d68f5ddf095af5c9ba60 · Patch
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libidn/2016-07/msg00009.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6262 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2079-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6262 · Security Note