CVE-2018-6003
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.5%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-6003
To remediate CVE-2018-6003, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/libtasn1—upgrade to 4.13-r0 or later
- Debian/libtasn1-6—upgrade to 4.13-2 or later
Is CVE-2018-6003 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.13-r0
- from 0, < 4.13-2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |