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Debian: CVE-2016-4579: libksba -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-4579: libksba -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/31/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

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)

  • debian-upgrade-libksba

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