Packages
- libidn - implementation of IETF IDN specifications
Details
Thijs Alkemade, Gustavo Grieco, Daniel Stenberg, and Nikos
Mavrogiannopoulos discovered that Libidn incorrectly handled invalid UTF-8
characters. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Libidn to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly disclose sensitive
memory. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2015-2059)
Hanno Böck discovered that Libidn incorrectly handled certain input. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Libidn to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8948, CVE-2016-6262,
CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263)
Thijs Alkemade, Gustavo Grieco, Daniel Stenberg, and Nikos
Mavrogiannopoulos discovered that Libidn incorrectly handled invalid UTF-8
characters. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Libidn to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly disclose sensitive
memory. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2015-2059)
Hanno Böck discovered that Libidn incorrectly handled certain input. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Libidn to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8948, CVE-2016-6262,
CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263)
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16.04 xenial | libidn11 – 1.32-3ubuntu1.1 | ||
| 14.04 trusty | libidn11 – 1.28-1ubuntu2.1 | ||
| 12.04 precise | libidn11 – 1.23-2ubuntu0.1 | ||
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