CVE-2014-3469

medium

Published 2014-06-05 · Modified 2026-05-06

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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 (1) asn1_read_value_type and (2) asn1_read_value functions in GNU Libtasn1 before 3.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a NULL value in an ivalue argument.

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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OS impact

Red Hat Affected 9 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.7	Affected	—
7.6	Affected	—
7.5	Affected	—
7.4	Affected	—
7.3	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—
6.5	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—
5.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
11	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.6-1`
sid	Fixed	`3.6-1`
forky	Fixed	`3.6-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.6-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.6-1`
7.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gnu	gnutls	`{"endExcluding":"3.5.7"}`	`3.5.7`
gnu	libtasn1	`{"endExcluding":"3.6"}`	`3.6`
redhat	virtualization	`6.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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