CVE-2016-4353: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ber-decoder.c in Libksba before 1.3.3 does not properly handle decoder stack overflows, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (abort) via crafted BER data.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only
  • Gnupg Libksba: up to and including 1.3.2

Published 2016-06-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.