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CVE-2016-4574

libksba: Incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · May 10, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-172 · Encoding Error