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

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

Summary: <dev-libs/libtasn1-4.12-r1: Denial of Service Vulnerability (NULL pointer der...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2017-10790

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	https://patches.openembedded.org/patc...
Whiteboard:	A3 [glsa cve]
Keywords:	STABLEREQ

Duplicates (1):	647010 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2017-08-04 00:36 UTC by Andrey Ovcharov
Modified:	2018-07-27 22:51 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:	dev-libs/libtasn1-4.12-r1 alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86
Runtime testing required:	---

Flags:	stable-bot: sanity-check+

Attachments
CVE-2017-10790.patch (CVE-2017-10790.patch,2.21 KB, patch) 2017-08-04 00:36 UTC, Andrey Ovcharov	no flags	Details \| Diff
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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) gentoo-dev

2017-09-03 22:20:47 UTC

Hi,
Done.
Can be stabilized.
Thanks!

Comment 3 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-09-04 12:50:45 UTC

amd64/x86 stable

Comment 4 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-09-04 13:36:46 UTC

Stable on alpha.

Comment 5 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-09-04 20:36:34 UTC

ia64 stable

Comment 6 Markus Meier gentoo-dev

2017-09-06 19:47:28 UTC

arm stable

Comment 7 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

2017-09-24 20:13:37 UTC

ppc64 stable

Comment 9 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-09-26 23:04:45 UTC

ppc stable

Comment 10 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-09-30 10:46:35 UTC

hppa stable

Comment 11 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-10-06 09:59:36 UTC

sparc stable (thanks to Rolf Eike Beer)

Comment 12 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

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 gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

2018-03-14 22:52:23 UTC

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