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CVE-2014-3468

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3468 describes an out-of-bounds access vulnerability in the asn1_get_bit_der function of GNU Libtasn1 before version 3.6, affecting products like Debian, F5, GNU, Red Hat, and SUSE. This flaw allows attackers to cause out-of-bounds memory access through specially crafted ASN.1 data due to improper error reporting for negative bit lengths. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, allowing for potential partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity and no authentication required. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.5.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 3.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:libtasn1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.79%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0379 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: gnutls-0:1.4.1-16.el5_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libtasn1-0:2.3-6.el6_5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libtasn1-0:3.3-5.el7_0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6Fixed in: rhev-hypervisor6-0:6.5-20140624.0.el6ev
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: gnutls
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mingw32-gnutls

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-3468Moderate

libtasn1: asn1_get_bit_der() can return negative bit length

May 25, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0247.html
Third Party Advisory
git.savannah.gnu.org / cgit/libtasn1.git/commit
PatchVendor Advisory
linux.oracle.com / errata/ELSA-2014-0594.html
Third Party Advisory
linux.oracle.com / errata/ELSA-2014-0596.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/help-libtasn1/2014-05/msg00006.html
Mailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-06/msg00002.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-06/msg00015.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0594.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0596.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0687.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0815.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/58591
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/58614
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/59021
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/59057
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/59408
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/60320
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/60415
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/61888
Third Party Advisory
support.f5.com / kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/400/sol15423.html
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3056
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
novell.com / support/kb/doc.php
Third Party Advisory
novell.com / support/kb/doc.php
Third Party Advisory