CVE-2018-6003 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNU Libtasn1 versions prior to 4.13, specifically within the _asn1_decode_simple_ber function. This flaw allows an attacker to trigger unlimited recursion in the BER decoder, leading to stack exhaustion and a system crash. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, affected products include various Debian and Fedora distributions utilizing Libtasn1.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:libtasn1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
26CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:26:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
27CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:27:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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