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Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libtomcrypt  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-LIBTOMCRYPT-527694
  • published9 Oct 2019
  • disclosed9 Oct 2019
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Introduced: 9 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtomcrypt package and not the libtomcrypt package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In LibTomCrypt through 1.18.2, the der_decode_utf8_string function (in der_decode_utf8_string.c) does not properly detect certain invalid UTF-8 sequences. This allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) or read information from other memory locations via carefully crafted DER-encoded data.

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