Bug 1473192 (CVE-2017-10790) - CVE-2017-10790 libtasn1: NULL pointer dereference in the _asn1_check_identifier function
Summary: CVE-2017-10790 libtasn1: NULL pointer dereference in the _asn1_check_identifi...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-10790
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1473194 1473195 1473196
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-20 08:23 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-07-20 08:27:07 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-20 08:23:14 UTC
The _asn1_check_identifier function in GNU Libtasn1 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 denial of service attack.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464141

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-20 08:23:55 UTC
Created libtasn1 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1473195]


Created mingw-libtasn1 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1473196]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1473194]


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