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Bug 1535578 - (CVE-2018-6003) CVE-2018-6003 libtasn1: Stack exhaustion due to indefinite recursion during BER decoding
CVE-2018-6003 libtasn1: Stack exhaustion due to indefinite recursion during B...
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20180104,repor...
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Depends On: 1535924 1535925 1535926 1539171 1539172
Blocks: 1535580
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Reported: 2018-01-17 11:16 EST by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2018-04-03 03:05 EDT (History)
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Description Adam Mariš 2018-01-17 11:16:56 EST
It was found that indefinite string encoding is decoded via recursion in _asn1_decode_simple_ber() which can lead to stack exhaustion when processing specially crafted string.

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libtasn1/2018-01/msg00000.html
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-01-18 04:35:16 EST
Created libtasn1 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1535926]


Created mingw-libtasn1 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1535925]
Comment 6 Kurt Seifried 2018-01-26 15:18:51 EST
Statement:

This issue affects the versions of libtasn1 as shipped with Red Hat Satellite version 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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