CVE-2016-4579
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Improper input validation
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
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."
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=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