High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 13, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-4579
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."
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Affected products
19cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- Range: <1.3.4
- osv-coords12 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/libksba&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/libksba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012pkg:rpm/suse/libksba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/libksba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libksba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012pkg:rpm/suse/libksba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/libksba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libksba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012pkg:rpm/suse/libksba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/libksba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libksba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012pkg:rpm/suse/libksba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP1
< 1.3.5-1.3+ 11 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.3.5-1.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.3.0-23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.3.0-23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.4-1.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.3.0-23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.3.0-23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.4-1.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.3.0-23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.3.0-23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.4-1.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.3.0-23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.3.0-23.1
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