Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting libtasn1-6 package, versions <4.10-1.1+deb9u1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.5% (87th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBTASN16-339591
- 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:9
libtasn1-6
to version 4.10-1.1+deb9u1 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.
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.