CVE-2016-4579

HIGH

Libksba < 1.3.4 - Denial of Service via BER Parser Length Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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."

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/11/10
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-22
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/8

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0133
EPSS Percentile 80.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (6)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 15.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
gnupg/libksba < 1.3.3
opensuse/leap 42.1
Published Jun 13, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026