GHSA-g4h2-4wvh-grc5

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in simple_asn1

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2021-45711

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
crates.io	simple_asn1	>= 0.6.0, < 0.6.1	0.6.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

An issue was discovered in the simple_asn1 crate 0.6.0 before 0.6.1 for Rust. There is a panic if UTCTime data, supplied by a remote attacker, has a second character greater than 0x7f.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45711 advisory
https://github.com/acw/simple_asn1/issues/27 web
https://github.com/acw/simple_asn1/commit/d7d39d709577710e9dc8833ee57d200eef366db8 web
https://github.com/acw/simple_asn1 package
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/simple_asn1/RUSTSEC-2021-0125.md web
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0125.html web