CVE-2019-10044

NameCVE-2019-10044
DescriptionTelegram Desktop before 1.5.12 on Windows, and the Telegram applications for Android, iOS, and Linux, is vulnerable to an IDN homograph attack when displaying messages containing URLs. This occurs because the application produces a clickable link even if (for example) Latin and Cyrillic characters exist in the same domain name, and the available font has an identical representation of characters from different alphabets.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs927711

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
telegram-desktop (PTS)bullseye3.1.1+ds-1~deb11u2fixed
bookworm4.6.5+ds-2fixed
sid, trixie4.14.9+ds-1.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
telegram-desktopsource(unstable)1.8.4-1927711

Notes

[buster] - telegram-desktop <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/blazeinfosec/advisories/blob/master/telegram-advisory.txt

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