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LIN6-14920 : Security Advisory - libtasn1 - CVE-2018-1000654

Created: Aug 30, 2018 Updated: Mar 8, 2020

Resolved Date: Mar 12, 2019

Found In Version: 6.0.0.37

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6

Component/s: Userspace

Description

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.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000654