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CVE-2016-4579 Details

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."

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a7eed17a0b2a1c09ef986f3b4b323cd31cea2b64 CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.html CVE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-22 CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/8 CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/11/10 CVE

see all 12 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-20Improper Input Validation[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
gnupg libksba
<= 1.3.3

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:libksba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
opensuse leap
42.1

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
canonical ubuntu linux
12.04
14.04
15.10
16.04

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-4579
NVD Published Date:
Jun 13, 2016
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2016-4579 Details - Not Deferred