Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability in GNU Libtasn1-4.13

CVE-2018-1000654 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

GNU Libtasn1-4.13 libtasn1-4.13 version libtasn1-4.13, libtasn1-4.12 contains a DoS, specifically CPU usage will reach 100% when running asn1Paser against the POC due to an issue in _asn1_expand_object_id(p_tree), after a long time, the program will be killed. This attack appears to be exploitable via parsing a crafted file.

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