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
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-4574
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1334832
Blocks: 1211262
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-05-10 15:36 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:49 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libksba 1.3.4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:51:35 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-10 15:36:36 UTC 
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 15:37:04 UTC 
Created libksba tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1334832]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-05-14 23:25:55 UTC 
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 22:25:56 UTC 
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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