Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libksba-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.73% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBKSBADEVEL-1352781
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed10 May 2016

Introduced: 10 May 2016

CVE-2016-4579  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libksba-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libksba-devel package and not the libksba-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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."

CVSS Scores

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