High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 13, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-4579

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."

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cginvd
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.htmlnvd
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/8nvd
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/11/10nvd
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-22nvd

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