Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting libtasn1-6 package, versions <4.13-2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.5% (87th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-LIBTASN16-339592
- published 22 Jan 2018
- disclosed 22 Jan 2018
Introduced: 22 Jan 2018
CVE-2018-6003 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
libtasn1-6
to version 4.13-2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtasn1-6
package and not the libtasn1-6
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6003
- http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=c593ae84cfcde8fea45787e53950e0ac71e9ca97
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076832
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/libtasn1/commit/946565d8eb05fbf7970ea366e817581bb5a90910
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6003
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4106
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535926
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-6003
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E