PT-2017-8789 · Libical+2 · Libical+2

Brandon Perry · Published 2014-12-26 · Updated 2019-03-04 · CVE-2016-5826

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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 an out-of-bounds heap read, by crafting a string to the icalparser parse string function, which is related to the parser get next char function.

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

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2495

CVE-2016-5826

SUSE-SU-2018:0119-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Libical

References · 31

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5824 · Security Note
• 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5826 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5826 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5825 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5826 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:0119-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5826 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-00726 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5826 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5826 · Security Note
• https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/vuln/CVE-2016-5826 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/986639 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1044995 · Note