CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-10790

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-07-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-07-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

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 configurations

• gnu libtasn1 (<= 4.12)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References