CVE-2018-6003

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion10 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
1.6%
top 18.41%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
GNU Libtasn1Debian Debian LinuxFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedJan 22
Latest updateMay 13

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

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianlibtasn1-6< 4.13-2+3
▶NVDgnu/libtasn14.12

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Fedora 26, 27

Patches

Patch: git.savannah.nongnu.org ↗Patch: git.savannah.nongnu.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-834w-g79f-wrqv: An issue was discovered in the _asn1_decode_simple_ber function in decoding↗2022-05-13
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OSV
libtasn1-6 vulnerabilities↗2018-01-25
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OSV
CVE-2018-6003: An issue was discovered in the _asn1_decode_simple_ber function in decoding↗2018-01-22
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CVEList
CVE-2018-6003: An issue was discovered in the _asn1_decode_simple_ber function in decoding↗2018-01-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Libtasn1 vulnerabilities↗2018-01-25
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Red Hat
libtasn1: Stack exhaustion due to indefinite recursion during BER decoding↗2018-01-04
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Debian
CVE-2018-6003: libtasn1-6 - An issue was discovered in the _asn1_decode_simple_ber function in decoding.c in...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6003 mingw-libtasn1: libtasn1: Stack exhaustion due to indefinite recursion during BER decoding [fedora-all]↗2018-01-18
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6003 libtasn1: Stack exhaustion due to indefinite recursion during BER decoding↗2018-01-17
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CVE-2018-6003 (HIGH CVSS 7.5) | An issue was discovered in the _asn | cvebase.io