CVE-2018-1000654

A vulnerability was found in GNU Libtasn1, where a resource management issue can lead to a denial of service, here an attacker could exploit this flaw by persuading a victim to parse a specially crafted file, exhausting all available CPU resources.

This vulnerability is rated as low severity because it causes a denial of service by exhausting CPU resources, it impacts availability, it does not compromise system security or integrity.

This flaw is in the asn1Parser binary included in libtasn1-tools RPM. The dynamic library libtasn1 and libtasn1-devel RPMs are not affected.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.