UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4579

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4579

    Published: 13 May 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-4579
    Aliases:
    USN-2982-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4579, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2982-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4579

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libksba

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.3.0-3ubuntu0.14.04.2

    Affected versions

    1.3.0-2
    1.3.0-2ubuntu1
    1.3.0-3
    1.3.0-3ubuntu0.14.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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