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CVE Reference: CVE-2012-1569
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2012-1569

Description:
The asn1_get_length_der function in decoding.c in GNU Libtasn1 before 2.12, as used in GnuTLS before 3.0.16 and other products, does not properly handle certain large length values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ASN.1 structure.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA48596
  Secunia Advisory: SA48488
  Secunia Advisory: SA48397
  Secunia Advisory: SA50739

REDHAT
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html

MLIST
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtasn1.general/54
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/20/3
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/5
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/20/8
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtasn1.general/53
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/5932

MISC
  http://blog.mudynamics.com/2012/03/20/gnutls-and-libtasn1-vulns/

FEDORA
  http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077284.html
  http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076699.html

CONFIRM
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html

BUGTRAQ
  http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0099.html


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