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CVE-2018-6003 Details

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=c593ae84cfcde8fea45787e53950e0ac71e9ca97 CVEPatchVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535926 CVEIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076832 CVEIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/libtasn1/commit/946565d8eb05fbf7970ea366e817581bb5a90910 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E CVE

see all 14 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-674Uncontrolled Recursion[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
gnu libtasn1
<= 4.12

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:libtasn1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux
9.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
fedoraproject fedora
26
27

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:27:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

10 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-6003
NVD Published Date:
Jan 22, 2018
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]