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CVE-2012-1569

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-189 Numeric Errors
Publication date:
26/03/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.0.15 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.1.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.1.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.1.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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