# CVE-2016-4579: 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

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2016-06-13 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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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## References

- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1
- 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
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/8
- http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a7eed17a0b2a1c09ef986f3b4b323cd31cea2b64

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