Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting gpg/libksba package, versions [0,1.3.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.67% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GPGLIBKSBA-2364889
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Jun 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-4574  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gpg/libksba to version 1.3.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Off-by-one error in the append_utf8_value function in the DN decoder (dn.c) in Libksba before 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via invalid utf-8 encoded data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356.

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