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CVE-2016-4579

Publication date 13 May 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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."

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libksba 16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.3.3-1ubuntu0.16.04.1
15.10 wily
Fixed 1.3.3-1ubuntu0.15.10.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.3.0-3ubuntu0.14.04.2
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1.2.0-2ubuntu0.2

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libksba

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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