SB2018011719 - Fedora 27 update for libtasn1
Published: January 17, 2018 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018011719
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6003)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the _asn1_decode_simple_ber function in decoding.c in GNU Libtasn1. A remote attacker can trigger unlimited recursion in the BER decoder and stack exhaustion to cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.