Unlimited Recursion in GNU Libtasn1 BER Decoder Leads to Stack Exhaustion and DoS

Unlimited Recursion in GNU Libtasn1 BER Decoder Leads to Stack Exhaustion and DoS

CVE-2018-6003 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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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