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.
References
Link Resource
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0099.html
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/5932 Patch
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtasn1.general/53
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtasn1.general/54
http://blog.mudynamics.com/2012/03/20/gnutls-and-libtasn1-vulns/ Exploit
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0596.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/076856.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/076865.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077284.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077339.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078207.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076699.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00001.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0427.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48397
http://secunia.com/advisories/48488
http://secunia.com/advisories/48505
http://secunia.com/advisories/48578
http://secunia.com/advisories/48596
http://secunia.com/advisories/49002
http://secunia.com/advisories/50739
http://secunia.com/advisories/57260
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2440
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:039
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/20/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/20/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/5
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026829
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1436-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804920
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2012-03-26T19:00:00

Updated: 2018-01-17T19:57:01

Reserved: 2012-03-12T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2012-1569

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Status : Modified

Published: 2012-03-26T19:55:01.110

Modified: 2018-01-18T02:29:13.553


Link: CVE-2012-1569

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