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Debian Jessie DSA-3658-1 Moderate: Libidn DoS Risks Identified

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2016
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Uncover the most recent advisory for Debian regarding libidn, which highlights several vulnerabilities potentially leading to Denial of Service (DoS) incidents.
Hanno Boeck discovered multiple vulnerabilities in libidn, the GNU library for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service agains...
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security advisory moderate denial of service software update debian libidn

Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.29-1+deb8u2.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.33-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.33-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libidn packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: libidn
CVE ID: CVE-2015-8948 CVE-2016-6261 CVE-2016-6263

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