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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.891085
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1085-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libidn2-0' package(s) announced via the DLA-1085-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libidn2-0' package(s) announced via the DLA-1085-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that there was an integer overflow vulnerability in libidn2-0's Punycode handling (an encoding used to convert Unicode characters to ASCII) which would have allowed attackers to cause a remote denial of service.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, this issue has been fixed in libidn2-0 version 0.8-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libidn2-0 packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'libidn2-0' package(s) on Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-14062
Debian Security Information: DSA-3988 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3988
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00040.html
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