CVE-2016-4353

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2015-04-08
Bugzilla:
1211261: CVE-2016-4353 libksba: denial of service due to stack overflow in src/ber-decoder.c (push_decoder_state, pop_decoder_state)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

ber-decoder.c in Libksba before 1.3.3 does not properly handle decoder stack overflows, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (abort) via crafted BER data.

Find out more about CVE-2016-4353 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw in libksba.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libksba Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libksba Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libksba Fix deferred

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