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GSD-2016-6261

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
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The idna_to_ascii_4i function in lib/idna.c in libidn before 1.33 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via 64 bytes of input.
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CVE-2016-6261
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