CVE-2015-2059

libidn < 1.30 - Out-of-Bounds Read via Invalid UTF-8 Characters

Title source: llm

Description

The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context-dependent attackers to read system memory and possibly have other unspecified impact via invalid UTF-8 characters in a string, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

References (10)

Core 10

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162537.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3578

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00042.html

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/jabberd2/jabberd2/issues/85

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162549.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72736

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/25

Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=2e97c279

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

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

Scores

EPSS 0.0083

EPSS Percentile 74.7%

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (5)

fedoraproject/fedora 21

fedoraproject/fedora 22

gnu/libidn < 1.30

opensuse/opensuse 13.1

opensuse/opensuse 13.2

Published Aug 12, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026