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Fedora 22 FEDORA-2015-11562 Critical Libidn Out-Of-Bounds Read

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Calendar Grey July 29, 2015
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A crucial security patch for libidn in Fedora 22 is now available, targeting CVE-2015-2059, which involves vulnerabilities related to out-of-bounds memory accesses. Vital for all users!
Security fix for CVE-2015-2059

Summary

GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and

IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain

Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain

names.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-2059

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora out-of-bounds read libidn

Change Log

* Mon Jul 13 2015 Miroslav Lichvar - 1.31-1.fc22 - update to 1.31 (CVE-2015-2059)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1197796 - CVE-2015-2059 libidn: out-of-bounds read with stringprep on invalid UTF-8 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197796

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libidn' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: libidn
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 1.31
Release: 1.fc22
URL:
Summary: Internationalized Domain Name support library

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security advisory critical Fedora out-of-bounds read libidn

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