Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in libin's stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 Function

Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in libin's stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 Function

CVE-2015-2059 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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