| Name | CVE-2015-8948 |
| Description | idn in GNU 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-582-1, DSA-3658-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libidn (PTS) | buster | 1.33-2.2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.33-3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.41-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.42-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
Fix: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=570e68886c41c2e765e6218cb317d9a9a447a041 (libidn-1-33)
When fixing this issue, the followup fix http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git/commit/?id=5e3cb9c7b5bf0ce665b9d68f5ddf095af5c9ba60
is required to fix the problem. (Resultet in followup CVE, CVE-2016-6262
if not applied completely).