Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-4579: Security patch for libksba (ALAS-2016-712)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
06/02/2016
07/25/2018
07/01/2017
08/25/2020
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."
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade-libksba
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