CVE-2016-4579

Summary

CVECVE-2016-4579
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
DescriptionLibksba 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."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-2982-1: Libksba vulnerabilities | Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com
oss-security - Re: CVE request: libksba out-of-bouds read remote DOS issue fixed in 1.3.4 www.openwall.com
libksba: Denial of Service and information disclosure (GLSA 201706-22) — Gentoo security security.gentoo.org
openSUSE-SU-2016:1525-1: moderate: Security update for libksba lists.opensuse.org
oss-security - CVE request: libksba out-of-bouds read remote DOS issue fixed in 1.3.4 www.openwall.com
git.gnupg.org Git - libksba.git/commit CONFIRM git.gnupg.org
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

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710374 Gentoo Linux libksba Denial of Service (DoS) and information disclosure Vulnerability (GLSA 201706-22)
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