Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-6003: libtasn1 Stack exhaustion due to indefinite recursion during BER decoding
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
01/22/2018
07/25/2018
03/06/2018
12/04/2019
Description
An issue was discovered in the _asn1_decode_simple_ber function in decoding.c in GNU Libtasn1 before 4.13. Unlimited recursion in the BER decoder leads to stack exhaustion and DoS.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-libtasn1
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