vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-6891)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 22, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

Two errors in the "asn1_find_node()" function (lib/parser_aux.c) within GnuTLS libtasn1 version 4.10 can be exploited to cause a stacked-based buffer overflow by tricking a user into processing a specially crafted assignments file via the e.g. asn1Coding utility.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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