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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-6262: libidn security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-6262: libidn security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
09/07/2016
Created
11/20/2019
Added
11/19/2019
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libidn

References

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