Denial of Service Vulnerability in Libksba's DN Decoder

CVE-2016-4574 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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