NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtasn1 package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.91% (89th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-LIBTASN1-1971763
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 22 Jun 2017
Introduced: 22 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-10790 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7
libtasn1
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtasn1
package and not the libtasn1
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
The _asn1_check_identifier function in GNU Libtasn1 through 4.12 causes a NULL pointer dereference and crash when reading crafted input that triggers assignment of a NULL value within an asn1_node structure. It may lead to a remote denial of service attack.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10790
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4106
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-11
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464141
- 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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00026.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3547-1/
- 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