CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4579
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-20
Description
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."
Affected configurations
• gnupg libksba (<= 1.3.3)
• opensuse leap 42.1
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a7eed17a0b2a1c09ef986f3b4b323cd31cea2b64 git.gnupg.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/11/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-22 security.gentoo.org
- http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a7eed17a0b2a1c09ef986f3b4b323cd31cea2b64 git.gnupg.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/11/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-22 security.gentoo.org