ubuntu · CVE-2016-4574

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:03:44 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4574 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libksba), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial): released 5.

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.

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