PT-2017-8787 · Libical+2 · Libical+2

Published 2014-12-26 · Updated 2019-04-02 · CVE-2016-5823

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libical versions 0.47 through 1.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically a use-after-free error, by providing a crafted ics file. This is related to the icalproperty new clone function in the affected libical versions.

Recommendations For libical versions 0.47 through 1.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

DoS

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2495

CVE-2016-5823

SUSE-SU-2018:0119-1

SUSE-SU-2018_0119-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Libical

References · 38

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-02 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5823 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-2495 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5823 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5825 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5823 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5824 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5823 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5826 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5823 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5823 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:0119-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-00726 · Security Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5823.html · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/986639 · Note