CVE-2026-57053

NameCVE-2026-57053
DescriptionGNU libidn before 1.44 is prone to out-of-bounds reads of uninitialized memory in the ToUnicode APIs because of mishandling in idna_to_unicode_internal. The affected code is not present in libidn2.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libidn (PTS)bullseye1.33-3vulnerable
bookworm1.41-1vulnerable
trixie1.43-1vulnerable
sid, forky1.44-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libidnsource(unstable)1.44-1

Notes

[trixie] - libidn <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libidn/2026-06/msg00001.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libidn/2026-05/msg00000.html

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