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CVE-2015-2059

The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context...

7.5 HighFix available

The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context-dependent attackers to read system memory and possibly have other unspecified impact via invalid UTF-8 characters in a string, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Exploit likelihood

3.19%Up 1.6 points since Feb 4, 2022
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What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.5

The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context-dependent attackers to read system memory and possibly have other unspecified impact via invalid UTF-8 characters in a string, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Record
CVE-2015-2059
CVSS 2.0
7.5 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context-dependent attackers to read system memory and possibly have other unspecified impact via invalid UTF-8 characters in a string, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Record
CVE-2015-2059
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2015-2172 No score

The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context-dependent attackers to read system memory and possibly have other unspecified impact via invalid UTF-8 characters in a string, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Record
EUVD-2015-2172
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-4rq4-pxv8-v7cg No score

The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context...

The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context-dependent attackers to read system memory and possibly have other unspecified impact via invalid UTF-8 characters in a string, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Record
GHSA-4rq4-pxv8-v7cg
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context-dependent attackers to read system memory and possibly have other unspecified impact via invalid UTF-8 characters in a string, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Record
CVE-2015-2059
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2015-2059 No score

The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context-dependent attackers to read system memory and possibly have other unspecified impact via invalid UTF-8 characters in a string, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2059
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVMGASA-2015-0349 No score

Updated libidn packages fix CVE-2015-2059

Updated libidn packages fix security vulnerability:

In libidn before 1.31, stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 did not validate that the input UTF-8 string was actually valid UTF-8, which could lead to out-of-bounds reads (CVE-2015-2059).

Record
MGASA-2015-0349
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10566-1 No score

libidn-devel-1.33-2.3 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the libidn-devel-1.33-2.3 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10566-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:2079-1 No score

Security update for libidn

This update for libidn fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2016-6262 and CVE-2015-8948: Out-of-bounds-read when reading one zero byte as input (bsc#990189)

  • CVE-2016-6261: Out-of-bounds stack read in idna_to_ascii_4i (bsc#990190)

  • CVE-2016-6263: stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize reject invalid UTF-8 (bsc#990191)

  • CVE-2015-2059: out-of-bounds read with stringprep on invalid UTF-8 (bsc#923241)

Record
SUSE-SU-2016:2079-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:2226-1 No score

Security update for wget

This update for wget fixes the following issues:

  • Fix for HTTP to a FTP redirection file name confusion vulnerability (bsc#984060, CVE-2016-4971).
  • Work around a libidn vulnerability (bsc#937096, CVE-2015-2059).
  • Fix for wget fails with basicauth: Failed writing HTTP request: Bad file descriptor (bsc#958342)
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:2226-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:2291-1 No score

Security update for libidn

This update for libidn fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2016-6262 and CVE-2015-8948: Out-of-bounds-read when reading one zero byte as input (bsc#990189)

  • CVE-2016-6261: Out-of-bounds stack read in idna_to_ascii_4i (bsc#990190)

  • CVE-2016-6263: stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize reject invalid UTF-8 (bsc#990191)

  • CVE-2015-2059: out-of-bounds read with stringprep on invalid UTF-8 (bsc#923241)

Record
SUSE-SU-2016:2291-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2699-1 No score

Security update for SLES 12 Docker image

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 container image has been updated to include security and stability fixes.

The following issues related to building of the container images have been fixed:

  • Included krb5 package to avoid the inclusion of krb5-mini which gets selected as a dependency by the Build Service solver. (bsc#1056193)
  • Do not install recommended packages when building container images. (bsc#975726)

A number of security issues that have been already fixed by updates released for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 are now included in the base image. A package/CVE cross-reference is available below.

pam:

  • CVE-2015-3238

libtasn1:

  • CVE-2015-3622
  • CVE-2016-4008

libidn:

  • CVE-2015-2059
  • CVE-2015-8948
  • CVE-2016-6261
  • CVE-2016-6262
  • CVE-2016-6263

zlib:

  • CVE-2016-9840
  • CVE-2016-9841
  • CVE-2016-9842
  • CVE-2016-9843

curl:

  • CVE-2016-5419
  • CVE-2016-5420
  • CVE-2016-5421
  • CVE-2016-7141
  • CVE-2016-7167
  • CVE-2016-8615
  • CVE-2016-8616
  • CVE-2016-8617
  • CVE-2016-8618
  • CVE-2016-8619
  • CVE-2016-8620
  • CVE-2016-8621
  • CVE-2016-8622
  • CVE-2016-8623
  • CVE-2016-8624
  • CVE-2016-9586
  • CVE-2017-1000100
  • CVE-2017-1000101
  • CVE-2017-7407

openssl:

  • CVE-2016-2105
  • CVE-2016-2106
  • CVE-2016-2107
  • CVE-2016-2108
  • CVE-2016-2109
  • CVE-2016-2177
  • CVE-2016-2178
  • CVE-2016-2179
  • CVE-2016-2180
  • CVE-2016-2181
  • CVE-2016-2182
  • CVE-2016-2183
  • CVE-2016-6302
  • CVE-2016-6303
  • CVE-2016-6304
  • CVE-2016-6306

libxml2:

  • CVE-2014-0191
  • CVE-2015-8806
  • CVE-2016-1762
  • CVE-2016-1833
  • CVE-2016-1834
  • CVE-2016-1835
  • CVE-2016-1837
  • CVE-2016-1838
  • CVE-2016-1839
  • CVE-2016-1840
  • CVE-2016-2073
  • CVE-2016-3627
  • CVE-2016-3705
  • CVE-2016-4447
  • CVE-2016-4448
  • CVE-2016-4449
  • CVE-2016-4483
  • CVE-2016-4658
  • CVE-2016-9318
  • CVE-2016-9597
  • CVE-2017-9047
  • CVE-2017-9048
  • CVE-2017-9049
  • CVE-2017-9050

util-linux:

  • CVE-2015-5218
  • CVE-2016-5011
  • CVE-2017-2616

cracklib:

  • CVE-2016-6318

systemd:

  • CVE-2014-9770
  • CVE-2015-8842
  • CVE-2016-7796

pcre:

  • CVE-2014-8964
  • CVE-2015-2325
  • CVE-2015-2327
  • CVE-2015-2328
  • CVE-2015-3210
  • CVE-2015-3217
  • CVE-2015-5073
  • CVE-2015-8380
  • CVE-2015-8381
  • CVE-2015-8382
  • CVE-2015-8383
  • CVE-2015-8384
  • CVE-2015-8385
  • CVE-2015-8386
  • CVE-2015-8387
  • CVE-2015-8388
  • CVE-2015-8389
  • CVE-2015-8390
  • CVE-2015-8391
  • CVE-2015-8392
  • CVE-2015-8393
  • CVE-2015-8394
  • CVE-2015-8395
  • CVE-2016-1283
  • CVE-2016-3191

appamor:

  • CVE-2017-6507

bash:

  • CVE-2014-6277
  • CVE-2014-6278
  • CVE-2016-0634
  • CVE-2016-7543

cpio:

  • CVE-2016-2037

glibc:

  • CVE-2016-1234
  • CVE-2016-3075
  • CVE-2016-3706
  • CVE-2016-4429
  • CVE-2017-1000366

perl:

  • CVE-2015-8853
  • CVE-2016-1238
  • CVE-2016-2381
  • CVE-2016-6185

libssh2_org:

  • CVE-2016-0787

expat:

  • CVE-2012-6702
  • CVE-2015-1283
  • CVE-2016-0718
  • CVE-2016-5300
  • CVE-2016-9063
  • CVE-2017-9233

ncurses:

  • CVE-2017-10684
  • CVE-2017-10685
  • CVE-2017-11112
  • CVE-2017-11113

libksba:

  • CVE-2016-4574
  • CVE-2016-4579

libgcrypt:

  • CVE-2015-7511
  • CVE-2016-6313
  • CVE-2017-7526

dbus-1:

  • CVE-2014-7824
  • CVE-2015-0245

Finally, the following packages received non-security fixes:

  • augeas
  • bzip2
  • ca-certificates-mozilla
  • coreutils
  • cryptsetup
  • cyrus-sasl
  • dirmngr
  • e2fsprogs
  • findutils
  • gpg2
  • insserv-compat
  • kmod
  • libcap
  • libsolv
  • libzypp
  • openldap2
  • p11-kit
  • permissions
  • procps
  • rpm
  • sed
  • shadow
  • zypper
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2700-1 No score

Security update for SLES 12-SP1 Docker image

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 container image has been updated to include security and stability fixes.

The following issues related to building of the container images have been fixed:

  • Included krb5 package to avoid the inclusion of krb5-mini which gets selected as a dependency by the Build Service solver. (bsc#1056193)
  • Do not install recommended packages when building container images. (bsc#975726)

A number of security issues that have been already fixed by updates released for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 are now included in the base image. A package/CVE cross-reference is available below.

pam:

  • CVE-2015-3238

libtasn1:

  • CVE-2015-3622
  • CVE-2016-4008

expat:

expat:

  • CVE-2012-6702
  • CVE-2015-1283
  • CVE-2016-0718
  • CVE-2016-5300
  • CVE-2016-9063
  • CVE-2017-9233

libidn:

  • CVE-2015-2059
  • CVE-2015-8948
  • CVE-2016-6261
  • CVE-2016-6262
  • CVE-2016-6263

zlib:

  • CVE-2016-9840
  • CVE-2016-9841
  • CVE-2016-9842
  • CVE-2016-9843

curl:

  • CVE-2016-5419
  • CVE-2016-5420
  • CVE-2016-5421
  • CVE-2016-7141
  • CVE-2016-7167
  • CVE-2016-8615
  • CVE-2016-8616
  • CVE-2016-8617
  • CVE-2016-8618
  • CVE-2016-8619
  • CVE-2016-8620
  • CVE-2016-8621
  • CVE-2016-8622
  • CVE-2016-8623
  • CVE-2016-8624
  • CVE-2016-9586
  • CVE-2017-1000100
  • CVE-2017-1000101
  • CVE-2017-7407

openssl:

  • CVE-2016-2105
  • CVE-2016-2106
  • CVE-2016-2107
  • CVE-2016-2108
  • CVE-2016-2109
  • CVE-2016-2177
  • CVE-2016-2178
  • CVE-2016-2179
  • CVE-2016-2180
  • CVE-2016-2181
  • CVE-2016-2182
  • CVE-2016-2183
  • CVE-2016-6302
  • CVE-2016-6303
  • CVE-2016-6304
  • CVE-2016-6306
  • CVE-2016-7056
  • CVE-2016-8610
  • CVE-2017-3731

cracklib:

  • CVE-2016-6318

pcre:

  • CVE-2014-8964
  • CVE-2015-2325
  • CVE-2015-2327
  • CVE-2015-2328
  • CVE-2015-3210
  • CVE-2015-3217
  • CVE-2015-5073
  • CVE-2015-8380
  • CVE-2015-8381
  • CVE-2015-8382
  • CVE-2015-8383
  • CVE-2015-8384
  • CVE-2015-8385
  • CVE-2015-8386
  • CVE-2015-8387
  • CVE-2015-8388
  • CVE-2015-8389
  • CVE-2015-8390
  • CVE-2015-8391
  • CVE-2015-8392
  • CVE-2015-8393
  • CVE-2015-8394
  • CVE-2015-8395
  • CVE-2016-1283
  • CVE-2016-3191

appamor:

  • CVE-2017-6507

bash:

  • CVE-2014-6277
  • CVE-2014-6278
  • CVE-2016-0634
  • CVE-2016-7543

cpio:

  • CVE-2016-2037

glibc:

  • CVE-2016-1234
  • CVE-2016-3075
  • CVE-2016-3706
  • CVE-2016-4429
  • CVE-2017-1000366

perl:

  • CVE-2015-8853
  • CVE-2016-1238
  • CVE-2016-2381
  • CVE-2016-6185

libssh2_org:

  • CVE-2016-0787

util-linux:

  • CVE-2016-5011
  • CVE-2017-2616

ncurses:

  • CVE-2017-10684
  • CVE-2017-10685
  • CVE-2017-11112
  • CVE-2017-11113

libksba:

  • CVE-2016-4574
  • CVE-2016-4579

libxml2:

  • CVE-2014-0191
  • CVE-2015-8806
  • CVE-2016-1762
  • CVE-2016-1833
  • CVE-2016-1834
  • CVE-2016-1835
  • CVE-2016-1837
  • CVE-2016-1838
  • CVE-2016-1839
  • CVE-2016-1840
  • CVE-2016-2073
  • CVE-2016-3627
  • CVE-2016-3705
  • CVE-2016-4447
  • CVE-2016-4448
  • CVE-2016-4449
  • CVE-2016-4483
  • CVE-2016-4658
  • CVE-2016-9318
  • CVE-2016-9597
  • CVE-2017-9047
  • CVE-2017-9048
  • CVE-2017-9049
  • CVE-2017-9050

libgcrypt:

  • CVE-2015-7511
  • CVE-2016-6313
  • CVE-2017-7526

update-alternatives:

  • CVE-2015-0860

systemd:

  • CVE-2014-9770
  • CVE-2015-8842
  • CVE-2016-7796

dbus-1:

  • CVE-2014-7824
  • CVE-2015-0245

Finally, the following packages received non-security fixes:

  • augeas
  • bzip2
  • ca-certificates-mozilla
  • coreutils
  • cryptsetup
  • cyrus-sasl
  • dirmngr
  • e2fsprogs
  • findutils
  • gpg2
  • insserv-compat
  • kmod
  • libcap
  • libsolv
  • libzypp
  • lua51
  • lvm2
  • netcfg
  • p11-kit
  • permissions
  • procps
  • rpm
  • sed
  • sg3_utils
  • shadow
  • zypper
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2015-2059 No score

The stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 function in libin before 1.31, as used in jabberd2, allows context-dependent attackers to read system memory and possibly have other unspecified impact via invalid UTF-8 characters in a string, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2059
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3068-1 No score

libidn vulnerabilities

Thijs Alkemade, Gustavo Grieco, Daniel Stenberg, and Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos discovered that Libidn incorrectly handled invalid UTF-8 characters. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Libidn to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly disclose sensitive memory. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-2059)

Hanno Böck discovered that Libidn incorrectly handled certain input. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Libidn to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8948, CVE-2016-6262, CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263)

Record
USN-3068-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
libidn
Debian:12
 before 1.31-1
1.31-1
libidn
Debian:13
 before 1.31-1
1.31-1
libidn
Debian:14
 before 1.31-1
1.31-1
libidn
Debian:6.0
 before 1.15-2+deb6u1, plus listed versions
1.15-2
1.15-2+deb6u1
libidn
Debian:7
 before 1.25-2+deb7u1, plus listed versions
1.25-2
1.25-2+deb7u1
libidn
Debian:8
 before 1.29-1+deb8u1, plus listed versions
1.29-1
1.29-1+deb8u1
libidn
Mageia:5
 before 1.32-1.mga5
1.32-1.mga5
libidn
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
 before 1.28-4.1
1.28-4.1
libidn
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
 before 1.28-4.1
1.28-4.1
libidn
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
 before 1.28-4.1
1.28-4.1
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
libidn
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
 before 1.28-4.1
1.28-4.1
wget
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
 before 1.14-10.3
1.14-10.3
wget
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
 before 1.14-10.3
1.14-10.3
wget
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
 before 1.14-10.3
1.14-10.3
libidn
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
 before 1.10-6.1
1.10-6.1
libidn
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
 before 1.10-6.1
1.10-6.1
libidn
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
 before 1.10-6.1
1.10-6.1
libidn
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
 before 1.28-1ubuntu2.1, plus listed versions
1.28-1ubuntu11.28-1ubuntu2
1.28-1ubuntu2.1
libidn
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
 before 1.28-1ubuntu2.1, plus listed versions
1.28-1ubuntu11.28-1ubuntu2
1.28-1ubuntu2.1
libidn
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
 before 1.32-3ubuntu1.1, plus listed versions
1.28-1ubuntu21.32-3ubuntu1
1.32-3ubuntu1.1

History

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In short

CVE-2015-2059 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Fedoraproject Fedora, published July 18, 2015. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 3.19%, the 88th percentile. Fixed in libidn 1.31-1.

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