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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…
High7.5EPSS 3.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microfocus
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."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.3% · top 11% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- USN-2982-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160511 Re: CVE request: libksba out-of-bouds read remote DOS issue fixed in 1.3.4 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1525 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-201706-22 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160510 CVE request: libksba out-of-bouds read remote DOS issue fixed in 1.3.4 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a7eed17a0b2a1c09ef986f3b4b323cd31cea2b64 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .