{"id":"USN-3068-1","summary":"libidn vulnerabilities","details":"Thijs Alkemade, Gustavo Grieco, Daniel Stenberg, and Nikos\nMavrogiannopoulos discovered that Libidn incorrectly handled invalid UTF-8\ncharacters. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Libidn to\ncrash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly disclose sensitive\nmemory. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.\n(CVE-2015-2059)\n\nHanno Böck discovered that Libidn incorrectly handled certain input. A\nremote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Libidn to crash,\nresulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8948, CVE-2016-6262,\nCVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263)\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:27:45.206673Z","published":"2016-08-24T13:30:51Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2059","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8948","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6261","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6262","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6263"],"upstream":["CVE-2015-2059","CVE-2015-8948","CVE-2016-6261","CVE-2016-6262","CVE-2016-6263","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2059","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8948","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6261","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6262","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6263"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3068-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2059"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8948"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6261"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6262"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6263"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libidn","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/libidn@1.28-1ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.28-1ubuntu2.1"}]}],"versions":["1.28-1ubuntu1","1.28-1ubuntu2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1.28-1ubuntu2.1","binary_name":"idn"},{"binary_version":"1.28-1ubuntu2.1","binary_name":"libidn11"},{"binary_version":"1.28-1ubuntu2.1","binary_name":"libidn11-java"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3068-1.json","cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","cves":[{"id":"CVE-2015-2059","severity":[{"score":"low","type":"Ubuntu"}]},{"id":"CVE-2015-8948","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"low","type":"Ubuntu"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-6261","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-6262","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-6263","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}]}}},{"package":{"name":"libidn","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/libidn@1.32-3ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.32-3ubuntu1.1"}]}],"versions":["1.28-1ubuntu2","1.32-3ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1.32-3ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"idn"},{"binary_version":"1.32-3ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"libidn11"},{"binary_version":"1.32-3ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"libidn11-java"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3068-1.json","cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","cves":[{"id":"CVE-2015-8948","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"low","type":"Ubuntu"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-6261","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-6262","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-6263","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}]}}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}