USN-2982-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4353)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2016-05-17 15:34 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:36 – Source website
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libksba vulnerabilities
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Hanno Böck discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled decoding certain BER data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4353)

Hanno Böck discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled decoding certain BER data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4354, CVE-2016-4355)

Hanno Böck discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled incorrect utf-8 strings when decoding certain DN data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4356)

Pascal Cuoq discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled incorrect utf-8 strings when decoding certain DN data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-4574)

Pascal Cuoq discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled decoding certain data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-4579)

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  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:33Z",
  "published": "2016-05-17T15:34:41Z",
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