CVE-2015-2059: fedoraproject fedora

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-2059 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 3.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 12-08-2015
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.