CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4574
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Off-by-one error in the append_utf8_value function in the DN decoder (dn.c) in Libksba before 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via invalid utf-8 encoded data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356.
Affected configurations
• gnupg libksba (<= 1.3.3)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• opensuse leap 42.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6be61daac047d8e6aa941eb103f8e71a1d4e3c75 git.gnupg.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00087.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6be61daac047d8e6aa941eb103f8e71a1d4e3c75 git.gnupg.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00087.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1 www.ubuntu.com