VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-1569

medium
Published 2012-03-26 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnugnutls{"endIncluding":"3.0.15"}
gnugnutls1.0.16
gnugnutls1.0.17
gnugnutls1.0.18
gnugnutls1.0.19
gnugnutls1.0.20
gnugnutls1.0.21
gnugnutls1.0.22
gnugnutls1.0.23
gnugnutls1.0.24
gnugnutls1.0.25
gnugnutls1.1.13
gnugnutls1.1.14
gnugnutls1.1.15
gnugnutls1.1.16
gnugnutls1.1.17
gnugnutls1.1.18
gnugnutls1.1.19
gnugnutls1.1.20
gnugnutls1.1.21
gnugnutls1.1.22
gnugnutls1.1.23
gnugnutls1.2.0
gnugnutls1.2.1
gnugnutls1.2.2
gnugnutls1.2.3
gnugnutls1.2.4
gnugnutls1.2.5
gnugnutls1.2.6
gnugnutls1.2.7
gnugnutls1.2.8
gnugnutls1.2.8.1a1
gnugnutls1.2.9
gnugnutls1.2.10
gnugnutls1.2.11
gnugnutls1.3.0
gnugnutls1.3.1
gnugnutls1.3.2
gnugnutls1.3.3
gnugnutls1.3.4
gnugnutls1.3.5
gnugnutls1.4.0
gnugnutls1.4.1
gnugnutls1.4.2
gnugnutls1.4.3
gnugnutls1.4.4
gnugnutls1.4.5
gnugnutls1.5.0
gnugnutls1.5.1
gnugnutls1.5.2
gnugnutls1.5.3
gnugnutls1.5.4
gnugnutls1.5.5
gnugnutls1.6.0
gnugnutls1.6.1
gnugnutls1.6.2
gnugnutls1.6.3
gnugnutls1.7.0
gnugnutls1.7.1
gnugnutls1.7.2
gnugnutls1.7.3
gnugnutls1.7.4
gnugnutls1.7.5
gnugnutls1.7.6
gnugnutls1.7.7
gnugnutls1.7.8
gnugnutls1.7.9
gnugnutls1.7.10
gnugnutls1.7.11
gnugnutls1.7.12
gnugnutls1.7.13
gnugnutls1.7.14
gnugnutls1.7.15
gnugnutls1.7.16
gnugnutls1.7.17
gnugnutls1.7.18
gnugnutls1.7.19
gnugnutls2.0.0
gnugnutls2.0.1
gnugnutls2.0.2
gnugnutls2.0.3
gnugnutls2.0.4
gnugnutls2.1.0
gnugnutls2.1.1
gnugnutls2.1.2
gnugnutls2.1.3
gnugnutls2.1.4
gnugnutls2.1.5
gnugnutls2.1.6
gnugnutls2.1.7
gnugnutls2.1.8
gnugnutls2.2.0
gnugnutls2.2.1
gnugnutls2.2.2
gnugnutls2.2.3
gnugnutls2.2.4
gnugnutls2.2.5
gnugnutls2.3.0
gnugnutls2.3.1
gnugnutls2.3.2
gnugnutls2.3.3
gnugnutls2.3.4
gnugnutls2.3.5
gnugnutls2.3.6
gnugnutls2.3.7
gnugnutls2.3.8
gnugnutls2.3.9
gnugnutls2.3.10
gnugnutls2.3.11
gnugnutls2.4.0
gnugnutls2.4.1
gnugnutls2.4.2
gnugnutls2.4.3
gnugnutls2.5.0
gnugnutls2.6.0
gnugnutls2.6.1
gnugnutls2.6.2
gnugnutls2.6.3
gnugnutls2.6.4
gnugnutls2.6.5
gnugnutls2.6.6
gnugnutls2.7.4
gnugnutls2.8.0
gnugnutls2.8.1
gnugnutls2.8.2
gnugnutls2.8.3
gnugnutls2.8.4
gnugnutls2.8.5
gnugnutls2.8.6
gnugnutls2.10.0
gnugnutls2.10.1
gnugnutls2.10.2
gnugnutls2.10.3
gnugnutls2.10.4
gnugnutls2.10.5
gnugnutls2.12.0
gnugnutls2.12.1
gnugnutls2.12.2
gnugnutls2.12.3
gnugnutls2.12.4
gnugnutls2.12.5
gnugnutls2.12.6
gnugnutls2.12.6.1
gnugnutls2.12.7
gnugnutls2.12.8
gnugnutls2.12.9
gnugnutls2.12.10
gnugnutls2.12.11
gnugnutls2.12.12
gnugnutls2.12.13
gnugnutls2.12.14
gnugnutls3.0
gnugnutls3.0.0
gnugnutls3.0.1
gnugnutls3.0.2
gnugnutls3.0.3
gnugnutls3.0.4
gnugnutls3.0.5
gnugnutls3.0.6
gnugnutls3.0.7
gnugnutls3.0.8
gnugnutls3.0.9
gnugnutls3.0.10
gnugnutls3.0.11
gnugnutls3.0.12
gnugnutls3.0.13
gnugnutls3.0.14
gnulibtasn1{"endIncluding":"2.11"}
gnulibtasn10.1.0
gnulibtasn10.1.1
gnulibtasn10.1.2
gnulibtasn10.2.0
gnulibtasn10.2.1
gnulibtasn10.2.2
gnulibtasn10.2.3
gnulibtasn10.2.4
gnulibtasn10.2.5
gnulibtasn10.2.6
gnulibtasn10.2.7
gnulibtasn10.2.8
gnulibtasn10.2.9
gnulibtasn10.2.10
gnulibtasn10.2.11
gnulibtasn10.2.12
gnulibtasn10.2.13
gnulibtasn10.2.14
gnulibtasn10.2.15
gnulibtasn10.2.16
gnulibtasn10.2.17
gnulibtasn10.2.18
gnulibtasn10.3.0
gnulibtasn10.3.1
gnulibtasn10.3.2
gnulibtasn10.3.3
gnulibtasn10.3.4
gnulibtasn10.3.5
gnulibtasn10.3.6
gnulibtasn10.3.7
gnulibtasn10.3.8
gnulibtasn10.3.9

References

CWEs

CWE-189

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