Bug 627014 (CVE-2017-10790) – <dev-libs/libtasn1-4.12-r1: Denial of Service Vulnerability (NULL pointer dereference)

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Andrey Ovcharov 2017-08-04 00:36:24 UTC]

Created attachment 487886 [details, diff]
CVE-2017-10790.patch

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10790

"The _asn1_check_identifier function in GNU Libtasn1 through 4.12 causes a NULL pointer dereference and crash when reading crafted input that triggers assignment of a NULL value within an asn1_node structure. It may lead to a remote denial of service attack."

[Comment 1 D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2017-09-03 21:24:21 UTC]

Upstream Backport:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtasn1.git;a=commit;h=d8d805e1f2e6799bb2dff4871a8598dc83088a39

@maintainer(s), after bump, please call for stable if needed. Thank you

Daj'Uan (jmbailey/mbailey_j)
Gentoo Security Padawan

[Comment 2 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2017-09-03 22:20:47 UTC]

Hi,
Done.
Can be stabilized.
Thanks!

[Comment 3 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) 2017-09-04 12:50:45 UTC]

amd64/x86 stable

[Comment 4 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) 2017-09-04 13:36:46 UTC]

Stable on alpha.

[Comment 5 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2017-09-04 20:36:34 UTC]

ia64 stable

[Comment 6 Markus Meier 2017-09-06 19:47:28 UTC]

arm stable

[Comment 7 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) 2017-09-10 22:21:26 UTC]

sparc was dropped to exp.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b5901d8f716555a1479f12313a2925fcadd177a9

[Comment 8 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2017-09-24 20:13:37 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 9 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2017-09-26 23:04:45 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 10 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2017-09-30 10:46:35 UTC]

hppa stable

[Comment 11 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2017-10-06 09:59:36 UTC]

sparc stable (thanks to Rolf Eike Beer)

[Comment 12 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) 2017-10-08 19:03:04 UTC]

arm64 is not stable arch, but leaving in place if they want to stabilize before GLSA is released.

[Comment 13 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2017-10-13 22:48:14 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201710-11 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-11
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).

[Comment 14 Christopher Díaz Riveros (RETIRED) 2018-03-14 22:52:23 UTC]

*** Bug 647010 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***