Null pointer dereference in libtASN1 - CVE-2017-10790
Published: January 29, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10322
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10790
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
libtASN1
libtASN1
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the _asn1_check_identifier function in GNU Libtasn1 due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted input, trigger assignment of a NULL value within an asn1_node structure and cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists in the _asn1_check_identifier function in GNU Libtasn1 due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted input, trigger assignment of a NULL value within an asn1_node structure and cause the service to crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-10790
Update to version 4.12 or later.