FKIE_CVE-2017-10790

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-07-02 03:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:00
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
The _asn1_check_identifier function in GNU Libtasn1 through 4.12 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 remote denial of service attack.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464141Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00026.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-11
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3547-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4106
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464141Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00026.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-11
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3547-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4106
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnu libtasn1 *
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