CVE-2016-4008

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4008
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4008.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4008
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-05-05T18:59:10.380Z
Modified
2026-06-18T03:57:05.275326408Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The asn1extractderoctet function in lib/decoding.c in GNU Libtasn1 before 4.8, when used without the ASN1DECODEFLAGSTRICTDER flag, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted certificate.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "15.10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "22"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "23"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "24"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "13.2"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:opensuse"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.com/gnutls/libtasn1

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/libtasn1
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
1e3d04bce839540c6a3f8f14c8521d8390042f23
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:libtasn1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.7"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
gnutls_0_5_0
gnutls_0_5_1
libasn1_0_1_0
libtasn1-0-3-2
libtasn1_0_1_2
libtasn1_0_2_0
libtasn1_0_2_1
libtasn1_0_2_10
libtasn1_0_2_11
libtasn1_0_2_12
libtasn1_0_2_13
libtasn1_0_2_14
libtasn1_0_2_15
libtasn1_0_2_16
libtasn1_0_2_17
libtasn1_0_2_18
libtasn1_0_2_2
libtasn1_0_2_3
libtasn1_0_2_4
libtasn1_0_2_5
libtasn1_0_2_6
libtasn1_0_2_7
libtasn1_0_2_8
libtasn1_0_2_9
libtasn1_0_3_0
libtasn1_0_3_1
libtasn1_0_3_10
libtasn1_0_3_2
libtasn1_0_3_3
libtasn1_0_3_4
libtasn1_0_3_5
libtasn1_0_3_6
libtasn1_0_3_7
libtasn1_0_3_8
libtasn1_0_3_9
libtasn1_1_0
libtasn1_1_1
libtasn1_1_2
libtasn1_1_3
libtasn1_1_4
libtasn1_1_5
libtasn1_1_6
libtasn1_2_0
libtasn1_2_1
libtasn1_2_10
libtasn1_2_11
libtasn1_2_12
libtasn1_2_13
libtasn1_2_2
libtasn1_2_3
libtasn1_2_4
libtasn1_2_5
libtasn1_2_6
libtasn1_2_7
libtasn1_2_8
libtasn1_2_9
libtasn1_3_0
libtasn1_3_1
libtasn1_3_2
libtasn1_3_3
libtasn1_3_4
libtasn1_3_5
libtasn1_3_6
libtasn1_4_0
libtasn1_4_1
libtasn1_4_2
libtasn1_4_3
libtasn1_4_4
libtasn1_4_5
libtasn1_4_6
libtasn1_after_rename
libtasn1_4.*
libtasn1_4.7

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4008.json"