CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6003
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-01-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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-674
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 configurations
• gnu libtasn1 (<= 4.12)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• fedoraproject fedora 26
• fedoraproject fedora 27
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness
References
- http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=c593ae84cfcde8fea45787e53950e0ac71e9ca97 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535926 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076832 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/libtasn1/commit/946565d8eb05fbf7970ea366e817581bb5a90910 Third Party Advisory
- 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://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4106 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=c593ae84cfcde8fea45787e53950e0ac71e9ca97 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535926 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076832 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/libtasn1/commit/946565d8eb05fbf7970ea366e817581bb5a90910 Third Party Advisory
- 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://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4106 Third Party Advisory