CVE-2018-0739

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition (such as can be found in PKCS7) could eventually exceed the stack given malicious input with excessive recursion. This could result in a Denial Of Service attack. There are no such structures used within SSL/TLS that come from untrusted sources so this is considered safe. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0h (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0g). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2o (Affected 1.0.2b-1.0.2n).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0739

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0739.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201804-2

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.1.0.h-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.18.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.18.2-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.18.2-1
debian debiansidfixed1.18.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.18.2-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.