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ubuntu-cve-2023-39914

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2023-09-13 15:15

Modified

2025-09-08 16:56

Summary

Details

NLnet Labs' bcder library up to and including version 0.7.2 panics while decoding certain invalid input data rather than rejecting the data with an error. This can affect both the actual decoding stage as well as accessing content of types that utilized delayed decoding.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-39914	REPORT
	https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0062.html	REPORT
	https://nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/bcder/CVE-2023-39914.txt	REPORT
	https://github.com/NLnetLabs/bcder/pull/74	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-39914	REPORT

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}

CVE-2023-39914 (GCVE-0-2023-39914)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-13 14:17 – Updated: 2024-09-12 13:22

Title

BER/CER/DER decoder panics on invalid input

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-232 - Improper Handling of Undefined Values
CWE-240 - Improper Handling of Inconsistent Structural Elements

Assigner

NLnet Labs

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/bcder/CVE-2023-39914.txt	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
NLnet Labs	bcder	Affected: * , < 0.7.3 (semver) Unaffected: 0.7.3 , < * (semver)

Date Public

2023-09-13 00:00

Credits

Haya Shulman Donika Mirdita Niklas Vogel

Show details on NVD website

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2023-39914 (GCVE-0-2023-39914)

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