DEBIAN-CVE-2026-119197: 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, binary REAL decoding builds a large mantissa one octet at a time by shifting a growing integer and slicing the remaining byte string. Attacker-controlled ASN.1 includes a binary-encoded REAL with a large mantissa and reaches BER, CER, or DER decode(), with or without a schema containing REAL. RealPayloadDecoder.valueDecoder repeatedly performs a left shift, OR, and suffix copy for every mantissa octet, making decode time quadratic in mantissa length. A comparatively small REAL value can hold a decoding worker on one CPU core for seconds or longer and cause availability loss. 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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