VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8948

high
Published 2016-09-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

idn in GNU 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected —
13.2 Affected —
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
16.04 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.33-1
sid Fixed 1.33-1
forky Fixed 1.33-1
bullseye Fixed 1.33-1
bookworm Fixed 1.33-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnulibidn{"endIncluding":"1.32"}

References

CWEs

CWE-125

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

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