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CVE-2018-1000654 (GCVE-0-2018-1000654)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-20 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 12:40
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Summary
GNU Libtasn1-4.13 libtasn1-4.13 version libtasn1-4.13, libtasn1-4.12 contains a DoS, specifically CPU usage will reach 100% when running asn1Paser against the POC due to an issue in _asn1_expand_object_id(p_tree), after a long time, the program will be killed. This attack appears to be exploitable via parsing a crafted file.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-08-12 00:00
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