CVE-2006-0645

Publication date 10 February 2006

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Tiny ASN.1 Library (libtasn1) before 0.2.18, as used by (1) GnuTLS 1.2.x before 1.2.10 and 1.3.x before 1.3.4, and (2) GNU Shishi, allows attackers to crash the DER decoder and possibly execute arbitrary code via "out-of-bounds access" caused by invalid input, as demonstrated by the ProtoVer SSL test suite.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libtasn1-2 7.04 feisty Not in release
6.10 edgy Ignored end of life, was needed
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 0.2.17-1ubuntu1

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-251-1
    • libtasn vulnerability
    • 17 February 2006

Other references