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CVE-2017-10790

HIGH

7.5

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1020%

EPSS Percentile9.81th

PublishedJul 2, 2017

Last ModifiedMay 13, 2026

Vulnerability Description

The _asn1_check_identifier function in GNU Libtasn1 through 4.12 causes a NULL pointer dereference and crash when reading crafted input that triggers assignment of a NULL value within an asn1_node structure. It may lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Gnu

Libtasn1

<= 4.12

References & Advisories

🔗 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464141

🔗 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

🔗 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

🔗 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00026.html

🔗 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-11

🔗 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3547-1/

🔗 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4106

🔗 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464141

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