1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-365-1

USN-365-1: libksba vulnerability

Publication date

16 October 2006

Overview

libksba vulnerability

Releases

Details

A parsing failure was discovered in the handling of X.509 certificates
that contained extra trailing data. Malformed or malicious certificates
could cause services using libksba to crash, potentially creating a
denial of service.

A parsing failure was discovered in the handling of X.509 certificates
that contained extra trailing data. Malformed or malicious certificates
could cause services using libksba to crash, potentially creating a
denial of service.

Update instructions

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
5.04 hoary libksba8 –  0.9.9-2ubuntu0.5.04

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