CVE-2018-6003

Summary

CVECVE-2018-6003
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-01-22 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:58:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-674

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 26 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 27 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 26 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 27 All All All
Application Gnu Libtasn1 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 lists.apache.org
released 4.13 (946565d8) · Commits · gnutls / libtasn1 · GitLab CONFIRM gitlab.com Third Party Advisory
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4106-1 libtasn1-6 DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
libtasn1.git - GNU libtasn1 CONFIRM git.savannah.nongnu.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Bug 1076832 – VUL-0: CVE-2018-6003: libtasn1: Stack exhaustion due to indefinite recursion during BER decoding CONFIRM bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 lists.apache.org
Bug Access Denied CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500322 Alpine Linux Security Update for libtasn1
  • 504089 Alpine Linux Security Update for libtasn1
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