Where
AND
-Infinity
0
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

From http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libtasn1/2015-03/msg00002.html:

GNU Libtasn1 is a standalone library written in C for manipulating ASN.1 objects including DER/BER encoding/decoding. GNU Libtasn1 is used by GnuTLS to handle X.509 structures and by GNU Shishi to handle Kerberos V5 structures.

Noteworthy changes in release 4.4 (released 2015-03-29) [stable] - Corrected a two-byte stack overflow in asn1derdecoding. Reported by Hanno Böck.

Exact commit that fixes this: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtasn1.git;a=commit;h=4d4f992826a4962790ecd0cce6fbba4a415ce149

CVE request: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/1038

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