CVE-2016-4579

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
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."
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-4579
  • Assigner
  • meissner@suse.de
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2016-06-13T19:59:10
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-11-29T13:49:18
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:libksba_project:libksba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.3.3
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/8
http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git;a=commit;h=a7eed17a0b2a1c09ef986f3b4b323cd31cea2b64
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/11/10
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-22
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4579
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4579
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:58:34 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 09:55:02 security@suse.com meissner@suse.de CVE Assigner updated
2022-12-02 09:55:02 2016-06-13T19:59Z 2016-06-13T19:59:10 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 09:55:02 2019-11-29T13:49:18 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 09:55:02 Modified Vulnerability Status updated