CVE-2019-18224
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 3.7% (pctl 89)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
idn2_to_ascii_4i in lib/lookup.c in GNU libidn2 before 2.1.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow via a long domain string.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 3.71% — more likely to be exploited than 89% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-787 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2019-10-21 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| gnu | libidn2 |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00009.html
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=12420
- https://github.com/libidn/libidn2/commit/e4d1558aa2c1c04a05066ee8600f37603890ba8c
- https://github.com/libidn/libidn2/compare/libidn2-2.1.0...libidn2-2.1.1
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JDQVQ2XPV5BTZUFINT7AFJSKNNBVURNJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MINU5RKDFE6TKAFY5DRFN3WSFDS4DYVS/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/4
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-63
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4168-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4613
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00009.html
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=12420
- https://github.com/libidn/libidn2/commit/e4d1558aa2c1c04a05066ee8600f37603890ba8c
- https://github.com/libidn/libidn2/compare/libidn2-2.1.0...libidn2-2.1.1
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JDQVQ2XPV5BTZUFINT7AFJSKNNBVURNJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MINU5RKDFE6TKAFY5DRFN3WSFDS4DYVS/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/4
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-63
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