CVE-2016-6262

moderate-risk

Published 2016-09-07

idn in libidn before 1.33 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information by reading a zero byte as input, which triggers an out-of-bounds read, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8948.

Do I need to act?

4.7% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.5/10 High

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (6)

Libidn

Ubuntu Linux

Opensuse

Leap

Affected Vendors

Canonical Opensuse Gnu

References (20)

Issue Tracking http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=5e3cb9c7b5bf0ce665b9d68f5...

Third Party Advisory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00005.html

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

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

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

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92070

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

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e3...

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8...

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