CVE-2016-4355

Publication date 29 April 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Multiple integer overflows in ber-decoder.c in Libksba before 1.3.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted BER data, which leads to a buffer overflow.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libksba 16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.3.0-3ubuntu0.14.04.2
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1.2.0-2ubuntu0.2

Notes

mdeslaur

same commit as CVE-2016-4354

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libksba

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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