Out-of-Bounds Affecting libtasn1 package, versions [,4.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
88.97% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBTASN1-2397237
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 May 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 May 2015

CVE-2015-3622  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libtasn1 to version 4.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The _asn1_extract_der_octet function in lib/decoding.c in GNU Libtasn1 before 4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via a crafted certificate.

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