High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 2, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-10790
CVE-2017-10790
Description
The _asn1_check_identifier function in GNU Libtasn1 through 4.12 causes a NULL pointer dereference and crash when reading crafted input that triggers assignment of a NULL value within an asn1_node structure. It may lead to a remote denial of service attack.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
7- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Envd
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Envd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00026.htmlnvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-11nvd
- usn.ubuntu.com/3547-1/nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4106nvd
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