CVE-2016-6262

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6262
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6262.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6262
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-09-07T20:59:05.500Z
Modified
2026-02-09T04:00:10.175474Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

idn in 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8948.

References

Affected packages

Git / cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libidn.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
5e3cb9c7b5bf0ce665b9d68f5ddf095af5c9ba60

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6262.json"