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CVE-2018-6003

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Severity Score
EPSS Score0.1660%
EPSS Percentile34.19th
PublishedJan 22, 2018
Last ModifiedNov 21, 2024

Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in the _asn1_decode_simple_ber function in decoding.c in GNU Libtasn1 before 4.13. Unlimited recursion in the BER decoder leads to stack exhaustion and DoS.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦
Gnu

Libtasn1

<= 4.12
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Debian

Debian Linux

= 9.0
💻
Fedoraproject

Fedora

= 26
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Fedoraproject

Fedora

= 27

References & Advisories

🔗 http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=c593ae84cfcde8fea45787e53950e0ac71e9ca97
🔗 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535926
🔗 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076832
🔗 https://gitlab.com/gnutls/libtasn1/commit/946565d8eb05fbf7970ea366e817581bb5a90910
🔗 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://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4106
🔗 http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=c593ae84cfcde8fea45787e53950e0ac71e9ca97

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