VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-2059

high
Published 2015-08-12 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context-dependent attackers to read system memory and possibly have other unspecified impact via invalid UTF-8 characters in a string, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
fedora Fedora Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
22 Affected —
21 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected —
13.1 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.31-1
sid Fixed 1.31-1
forky Fixed 1.31-1
bullseye Fixed 1.31-1
bookworm Fixed 1.31-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnulibidn{"endIncluding":"1.30"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.