CVE-2016-4008

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

25.88% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 97.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2016-05-05 18:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 00:17Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-04-13

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-399
• CWE-835Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

0d417047e2fa511418029d6b4b18f5b7c5f30ce68fe2cf23e8724368024afe5a

• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201703-05https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201703-05vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-048ffb6235http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182299.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• git.savannah.gnu.orghttp://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtasn1.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a6e0a0b58f5cdaf4e9beca5bce69c09808cbb625x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2957-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2957-2vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-383b8250e6http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182907.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1567http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00047.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• lists.gnu.org[help-libtasn1] 20160411 GNU Libtasn1 4.8 releasedhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libtasn1/2016-04/msg00009.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• git.savannah.gnu.orghttp://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtasn1.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f435825c0f527a8e52e6ffbc3ad0bc60531d537ex_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.debian.orgDSA-3568http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3568vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1674http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00097.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-96bfd9e873http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183221.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2957-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2957-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160411 Infinite loops parsing malicious DER certificates in libtasn1 4.7http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST