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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 09:46:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: cuoq@...st-in-soft.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Infinite loops parsing malicious DER certificates in libtasn1 4.7
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> The libtasn1 library, in its 4.7 version, can loop for a long time or
> indefinitely when it is used to parse DER representations of X509
> certificates, leading to a denial of service. Some of these loops may
> in addition increase heap or stack usage, leading to more issues.
>
> These issues were found by Pascal Cuoq and Miod Vallat using american
> fuzzy lop. They are fixed in libtasn1 version 4.8. ...
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-4.8.tar.gz
We can assign a CVE ID for this entry in the libtasn1-4.8.tar.gz NEWS
file:
Noteworthy changes in release 4.8 (released 2016-04-11) [stable]
Fixes to avoid an infinite recursion when decoding without
the ASN1_DECODE_FLAG_STRICT_DER flag. Reported by Pascal Cuoq.
Use CVE-2016-4008.
If there were unrelated problems that needed to be resolved with a
different solution approach (e.g., an infinite "while" loop within one
function) and require any additional CVE IDs, please let us know.
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