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CVE-2018-6003

Published: Jan 22, 2018Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-674
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
2.8%
Top 15.2%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-674

Affected Products

n/an/a
libtasn1gnuOSS Libraries
debian linuxdebian
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
fedorafedoraproject
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
gnuoss-projectUSOSS Librariesaka g. nu
debianoss-projectGBOperating Systemsaka debian gnu/linux
fedoraprojectoss-projectUSOperating Systemsaka fedora project

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
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References

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/libtasn1/commit/946565d8eb05fbf7970ea366e817581bb5a90910
gitlab.com
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076832
bugzilla.suse.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535926
bugzilla.redhat.com
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Timeline

Published
Jan 22, 2018
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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