Bug 1334831 – CVE-2016-4574 libksba: Incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356

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Bug 1334831 - (CVE-2016-4574) CVE-2016-4574 libksba: Incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356

Summary:	CVE-2016-4574 libksba: Incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2016-4574

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1334832
Blocks:	1211262
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Reported:	2016-05-10 11:36 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2016-05-16 18:25 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	libksba 1.3.4
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-10 11:36:36 EDT

An incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356 was reported in libksba. The old fix for the problem from April 2015 had an off-by-one in the bad encoding handing.

Upstream fix:

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git;a=commit;h=6be61daac047d8e6aa941eb103f8e71a1d4e3c75

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/300

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-05-10 11:37:04 EDT

Created libksba tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1334832]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-05-14 19:25:55 EDT

libksba-1.3.4-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-05-16 18:25:56 EDT

libksba-1.3.4-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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