Bug 1211259 (CVE-2016-4356)

Summary: CVE-2016-4356 libksba: encoding of invalid utf-8 strings in DN decoder src/dn.c (append_quoted, append_atv)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: carnil, rdieter
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Fixed In Version: libksba 1.3.3 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 1211263    
Bug Blocks: 1211262    

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-04-13 13:04:12 UTC
Version 1.3.3 of libksba fxes an interger overflow due to incorrect utf-8 strings handling:

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git;a=commit;h=243d12fdec66a4360fbb3e307a046b39b5b4ffc3

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-04-13 13:10:14 UTC
Created libksba tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1211263]

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-05-04 03:27:12 UTC
Statement:

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

Comment 3 Andrej Nemec 2016-05-02 08:26:19 UTC
CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/172

It also explains the summary change.

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-06-11 21:03:56 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4356