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Bug 592078 (CVE-2016-4579) - <dev-libs/libksba-1.3.5: Unproportional amount of memory allocated when parsing crafted certificates
Summary: <dev-libs/libksba-1.3.5: Unproportional amount of memory allocated when parsi...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2016-4579
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard: A3 [glsa cve]
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-08-25 09:23 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2017-06-22 17:46 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-08-25 09:23:47 UTC
From ${URL} :

It was found that an unproportionate amount of memory is allocated when parsing crafted certificates in 
libskba, which may lead to DoS. Moreover in libksba 1.3.4, allocated memory is uninitialized and could 
potentially contain sensitive data left in freed memory block.

Public via:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/343


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-09-13 00:17:02 UTC
@ Arches,

please test and mark stable: =dev-libs/libksba-1.3.5

Targeted stable KEYWORDS: alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86
Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-09-13 11:37:39 UTC
amd64 stable
Comment 3 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-09-17 09:52:14 UTC
Stable on alpha.
Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-09-19 13:32:48 UTC
Stable for HPPA PPC64.
Comment 5 Markus Meier gentoo-dev 2016-09-24 19:21:04 UTC
arm stable
Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-09-29 08:43:15 UTC
x86 stable
Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-09-29 09:38:13 UTC
sparc stable
Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-09-29 12:39:00 UTC
ppc stable
Comment 9 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-09-29 13:31:26 UTC
ia64 stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please add it to the existing request, or file a new one.
Comment 10 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2017-04-19 05:50:47 UTC
Arches and Maintainer(s), Thank you for your work.

New GLSA Request filed.
Comment 11 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-06-22 17:46:12 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201706-22 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-22
by GLSA coordinator Kristian Fiskerstrand (K_F).