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CVE-2015-8948 (GCVE-0-2015-8948)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-07 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:36
VLAI
Summary
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.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2016-07-20 00:00
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