FKIE_CVE-2016-4579

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-06-13 19:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:47
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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."
References
security@opentext.comhttp://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a7eed17a0b2a1c09ef986f3b4b323cd31cea2b64
security@opentext.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.html
security@opentext.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/8
security@opentext.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/11/10
security@opentext.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1
security@opentext.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-22
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a7eed17a0b2a1c09ef986f3b4b323cd31cea2b64
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/8
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/11/10
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-22
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnupg libksba *
opensuse leap 42.1
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 15.10
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
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