libuv was vulnerable to out-of-bounds reads in the uv__idna_toascii()
function which is used to convert strings to ASCII. This is called by
the DNS resolution function and can lead to information disclosures or
crashes.
Reported by Eric Sesterhenn in collaboration with Cure53 and ExpressVPN.
Reported-By: Eric Sesterhenn <eric.sesterhenn@x41-dsec.de>
Fixes: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/3147
PR-URL: https://github.com/libuv/libuv-private/pull/1
Refs: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22918
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
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