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CVE-2018-6003 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.

HighCVSS 7.5 EPSS 2.8%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

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 products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
debian/libtasn1-6(Debian:12) < 4.13-2 4.13-2
debian/libtasn1-6(Debian:13) < 4.13-2 4.13-2
debian/libtasn1-6(Debian:14) < 4.13-2 4.13-2
GNU libtasn1 <= 4.12 No fix listed
debian linux = 9.0 No fix listed
fedoraproject fedora = 26 No fix listed
fedoraproject fedora = 27 No fix listed
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.10) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.11) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.12) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.13) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.14) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.15) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.16) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.17) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.18) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.19) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.20) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.21) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.22) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.23) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.24) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.4) < 4.8-r3 4.8-r3
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.5) < 4.9-r3 4.9-r3
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.6) < 4.10-r3 4.10-r3
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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.7) < 4.12-r3 4.12-r3
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.8) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0
alpine/libtasn1(Alpine:v3.9) < 4.13-r0 4.13-r0

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