USN-2427-1

Hanno Böck discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled certain S/MIME messages or ECC based OpenPGP data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libksba

Package

Name: libksba
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libksba@1.3.0-3ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.3.0-3ubuntu0.14.04.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.3.0-2

1.3.0-2ubuntu1

1.3.0-3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.3.0-3ubuntu0.14.04.1",
            "binary_name": "libksba8"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-9087",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2427-1.json"