Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libical  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBICAL-292965
  • published27 Jan 2017
  • disclosed27 Jan 2017

Introduced: 27 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-5826  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libical package and not the libical package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The parser_get_next_char function in libical 0.47 and 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) by crafting a string to the icalparser_parse_string function.