Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1951-1 libtomcrypt -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 09 Oct 2019
- Affected Packages:
- libtomcrypt
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-17362.
- More information:
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It was discovered that there was a denial of service vulnerability in the libtomcrypt cryptographic library.
An out-of-bounds read and crash could occur via carefully-crafted "DER" encoded data (eg. by importing an X.509 certificate).
- CVE-2019-17362
In LibTomCrypt through 1.18.2, the der_decode_utf8_string function (in der_decode_utf8_string.c) does not properly detect certain invalid UTF-8 sequences. This allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) or read information from other memory locations via carefully crafted DER-encoded data.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, these problems have been fixed in version 1.17-6+deb8u1.We recommend that you upgrade your libtomcrypt packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
- CVE-2019-17362