cve-2016-4574
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-06-13 19:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:32
Severity ?
Summary
Off-by-one error in the append_utf8_value function in the DN decoder (dn.c) in Libksba before 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via invalid utf-8 encoded data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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