CVE-2019-12290: Input Validation
First published: Tue Oct 22 2019(Updated: )
GNU libidn2 before 2.2.0 fails to perform the roundtrip checks specified in RFC3490 Section 4.2 when converting A-labels to U-labels. This makes it possible in some circumstances for one domain to impersonate another. By creating a malicious domain that matches a target domain except for the inclusion of certain punycoded Unicode characters (that would be discarded when converted first to a Unicode label and then back to an ASCII label), arbitrary domains can be impersonated.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| GNU libidn2 | <2.2.0 | |
| debian/libidn2 | 2.3.0-5 2.3.3-1 2.3.7-2 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00009.html
- https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn2/commit/241e8f486134793cb0f4a5b0e5817a97883401f5
- https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn2/commit/614117ef6e4c60e1950d742e3edf0a0ef8d389de
- https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn2/merge_requests/71
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3UFT76Y7OSGPZV3EBEHD6ISVUM3DLARM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KXDKYWFV6N2HHVSE67FFDM7G3FEL2ZNE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ONG3GJRRJO35COPGVJXXSZLU4J5Y42AT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RSI4TI2JTQWQ3YEUX5X36GTVGKO4QKZ5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6ZXL2RDNQRAHCMKWPOMJFKYJ344X4HL/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-63
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4168-1/
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2019-12290
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3UFT76Y7OSGPZV3EBEHD6ISVUM3DLARM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KXDKYWFV6N2HHVSE67FFDM7G3FEL2ZNE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ONG3GJRRJO35COPGVJXXSZLU4J5Y42AT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RSI4TI2JTQWQ3YEUX5X36GTVGKO4QKZ5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6ZXL2RDNQRAHCMKWPOMJFKYJ344X4HL/
- https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libidn2/commit/?id=0aa447342fbf0fc37d7887982e0daf817db08b1d
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-12290
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-12290
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12290
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12290
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