CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-6891
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
Two errors in the "asn1_find_node()" function (lib/parser_aux.c) within GnuTLS libtasn1 version 4.10 can be exploited to cause a stacked-based buffer overflow by tricking a user into processing a specially crafted assignments file via the e.g. asn1Coding utility.
Affected configurations
• gnu libtasn1 4.10
• debian debian linux 8.0
• apache bookkeeper 4.12.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtasn1.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5520704d075802df25ce4ffccc010ba1641bd484 git.savannah.gnu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00018.html Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3861 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98641 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038619 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/advisories/76125/ Permissions Required
- https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2017-11/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-11 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtasn1.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5520704d075802df25ce4ffccc010ba1641bd484 git.savannah.gnu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00018.html Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3861 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98641 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038619 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/advisories/76125/ Permissions Required
- https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2017-11/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-11 Third Party Advisory