CVE-2016-4356

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4356
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4356.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4356
Downstream
Published
2016-06-13T19:59:06.990Z
Modified
2026-03-10T14:04:19.350398Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The appendutf8value function in the DN decoder (dn.c) in Libksba before 1.3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) by clearing the high bit of the byte after invalid utf-8 encoded data.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/gpg/libksba

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/gpg/libksba
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
02079b56b8d0d922bb84981270fafbc36637b417
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.3.2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
debian/V0-0-0
debian/V0-2-0
debian/V0-2-1
debian/V0-2-2
debian/V0-2-3
debian/V0-4-0
debian/V0-4-1
debian/V0-4-2
debian/V0-4-3
debian/V0-4-4
debian/V0-4-5
debian/libksba-0-4-6
debian/libksba-0-4-7
debian/libksba-0-9-0
debian/libksba-0-9-1
debian/libksba-0-9-10
debian/libksba-0-9-11
debian/libksba-0-9-12
debian/libksba-0-9-2
debian/libksba-0-9-3
debian/libksba-0-9-4
debian/libksba-0-9-5
debian/libksba-0-9-6
debian/libksba-0-9-7
debian/libksba-0-9-8
debian/libksba-0-9-9
debian/libksba-0.*
debian/libksba-0.9.13
debian/libksba-0.9.14
debian/libksba-0.9.15
debian/libksba-0.9.16
debian/libksba-1.*
debian/libksba-1.0.1
debian/libksba-1.0.2
debian/libksba-1.0.3
debian/libksba-1.0.4
debian/libksba-1.0.5
debian/libksba-1.0.6
debian/libksba-1.0.7
debian/libksba-1.0.8
debian/libksba-1.1.0
libksba-1.*
libksba-1.2.0
libksba-1.3.0
libksba-1.3.1
libksba-1.3.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4356.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    }
]