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Ubuntu: USN-2982-1 (CVE-2016-4574): Libksba vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2982-1 (CVE-2016-4574): Libksba vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/17/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/17/2016
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

Off-by-one error in the append_utf8_value function in the DN decoder (dn.c) in Libksba before 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via invalid utf-8 encoded data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libksba8

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