Vulnerability in GNU Gnutls
CVE-2012-1569
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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.044 (91.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 91.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.044 · newest: 0.044 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNU Gnutls — versions 1.0.16, 1.0.17, 1.0.18
- GNU Libtasn1 — versions 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/57260 (third-party-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0427.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/48578 (third-party-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/49002 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077339.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/20/8 (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/5 (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/48488 (third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1436-1 (vendor-advisory)