CVE-2019-12290

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.

Date published : 2019-10-22

https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn2/commit/614117ef6e4c60e1950d742e3edf0a0ef8d389de

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