CVE-2016-4579 (GCVE-0-2016-4579)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-13 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:32
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Libksba before 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via unspecified vectors, related to the "returned length of the object from _ksba_ber_parse_tl."
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/0… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-22 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/8 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2016-05-03 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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