CVE-2016-4574

Summary

CVECVE-2016-4574
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-06-13 19:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:32:00 UTC
DescriptionOff-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-189

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Application Gnupg Libksba All All All All
Application Libksba Project Libksba All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-2982-1: Libksba vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
git.gnupg.org Git - libksba.git/commit CONFIRM git.gnupg.org
openSUSE-SU-2016:1525-1: moderate: Security update for libksba SUSE lists.opensuse.org
oss-security - Re: Re: CVE request: three issues in libksba MLIST www.openwall.com
openSUSE-SU-2016:1370-1: moderate: Security update for libksba SUSE lists.opensuse.org
oss-security - Re: CVE request: three issues in libksba MLIST www.openwall.com
git.gnupg.org Git - libksba.git/commit git.gnupg.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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