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CVE-2026-57053

Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.

Description

GNU libidn before 1.44 is prone to out-of-bounds reads of uninitialized memory in the ToUnicode APIs because of mishandling in idna_to_unicode_internal. The affected code is not present in libidn2.

Severity
LOW
CVSS score
2.5 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-06-23 18:18:10.827000
Last modified
2026-10-25 23:10:00.167000
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