GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-3m6f-3gfg-4x56 Panic on incorrect date input to `simple_asn1`
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- simple_asn1
- Severity
- Moderate
- Reviewed
- 2022-06-17
Affected packages
• crates.io simple_asn1: >= 0.6.0, < 0.6.1 → fixed in 0.6.1
Description
Version 0.6.0 of the `simple_asn1` crate panics on certain malformed
inputs to its parsing functions, including `from_der` and `der_decode`.
Because this crate is frequently used with inputs from the network, this
should be considered a security vulnerability.
The issue occurs when parsing the old ASN.1 "UTCTime" time format. If an
attacker provides a UTCTime where the first character is ASCII but the
second character is above 0x7f, a string slice operation in the
`from_der_` function will try to slice into the middle of a UTF-8
character, and cause a panic.
This error was introduced in commit
`d7d39d709577710e9dc8`,
which updated `simple_asn1` to use `time` instead of `chrono` because of
`RUSTSEC-2020-159`.
Versions of `simple_asn1` before 0.6.0 are not affected by this issue.
The patch was applied in
`simple_asn1` version 0.6.1.