CVE-2016-4579: Input Validation
First published: Mon Jun 13 2016(Updated: )
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."
Credit: meissner@suse.de
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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Reference Links
- http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git;a=commit;h=a7eed17a0b2a1c09ef986f3b4b323cd31cea2b64
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/8
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/11/10
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-22
- http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a7eed17a0b2a1c09ef986f3b4b323cd31cea2b64
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/event
- agent/author
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/references
- agent/type
- agent/description
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/gnupg
- canonical/gnupg libksba
- version/gnupg libksba/1.3.3
- vendor/opensuse
- canonical/opensuse leap
- version/opensuse leap/42.1
- vendor/canonical
- canonical/canonical ubuntu linux
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/12.04
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/14.04
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/15.10
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/16.04