Out-of-Bounds Affecting libtasn1-6 package, versions <4.10-1.1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.23% (61st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBTASN16-339576
- published 22 May 2017
- disclosed 22 May 2017
Introduced: 22 May 2017
CVE-2017-6891 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
libtasn1-6
to version 4.10-1.1 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:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
Two errors in the "asn1_find_node()" function (lib/parser_aux.c) within GnuTLS libtasn1 version 4.10 can be exploited to cause a stacked-based buffer overflow by tricking a user into processing a specially crafted assignments file via the e.g. asn1Coding utility.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6891
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtasn1.git;a=commit;h=5520704d075802df25ce4ffccc010ba1641bd484
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6891
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3861
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-11
- https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/advisories/76125/
- https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2017-11/
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00018.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98641
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038619
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-6891
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtasn1.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5520704d075802df25ce4ffccc010ba1641bd484
- 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