CVE-2016-4579

libksba: Out-of-bounds read in _ksba_ber_parse_tl

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · May 10, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

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."

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read