High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 22, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-6003
CVE-2018-6003
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.
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Affected products
6- osv-coords5 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/libtasn1&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/libtasn1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/libtasn1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/libtasn1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/libtasn1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3
< 4.17.0-1.2+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17.0-1.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-3.5.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
7- git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- gitlab.com/gnutls/libtasn1/commit/946565d8eb05fbf7970ea366e817581bb5a90910nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4106nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Envd
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Envd
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