Debian Security Advisory

DLA-141-1 libksba -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
29 Jan 2015
Affected Packages:
libksba
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-9087.
More information:

A vulnerability has been fixed in the libksba X.509 and CMS support library:

  • CVE-2014-9087

    Fix buffer overflow in ksba_oid_to_str reported by Hanno Böck.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in libksba version 1.0.7-2+deb6u1

We recommend that you upgrade your libksba packages.