CVE-2012-1569

Public on 2012-03-26
Modified on 2014-09-14
Description
The asn1_get_length_der function in decoding.c in GNU Libtasn1 before 2.12, as used in GnuTLS before 3.0.16 and other products, does not properly handle certain large length values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ASN.1 structure.
Severity
Important severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 libtasn1 2012-04-05 ALAS-2012-60 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2012-1569 Mitre: CVE-2012-1569