Debian Security Advisory
DLA-470-1 libksba -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 13 May 2016
- Affected Packages:
- libksba
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-4579.
- More information:
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It was discovered that there was a possible read access beyond a buffer vulnerability in libksba, a X.509 and CMS certificate support library.
The returned length of the object from _ksba_ber_parse_tl (ti.length) was not always checked against the actual buffer length, thus leading to a read access after the end of the buffer and thus a SEGV.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, this issue has been fixed in libksba version 1.2.0-2+deb7u2.We recommend that you upgrade your libksba packages.