DEBIAN-CVE-2026-119196: High severity debian/pyasn1 vulnerability

Published Oct 29, 2026
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Updated

pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.5, constructed BIT STRING decoding repeatedly shifts and copies the complete bit value accumulated from earlier fragments. Attacker-controlled BER or CER input contains many constructed BIT STRING fragments; schema-driven DER also accepts a definite-length constructed BIT STRING. BitStringPayloadDecoder repeatedly calls BitString.fromOctetString with the prior bitString as prepend, shifting an ever-growing SizedInteger for each fragment and causing quadratic work. Large fragmented values can exhaust CPU during decode() without requiring later conversion or formatting. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.5.

Affected Software

3 affected components
debian/pyasn1*
debian/pyasn1*
debian/pyasn1*

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade pyasn1 to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 0.6.5

Event History

Oct 29, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·08:17 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·08:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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