Buffer Overflow and Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
CVE-2008-1673

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Key Information:

Vendor: Linux
Status: Linux Kernel; Debian Linux
Vendor: CVE Published:; 10 June 2008

What is CVE-2008-1673?

The Linux kernel versions prior to 2.4.36.6 (2.4 series) and 2.6.25.5 (2.6 series) include a flaw in ASN.1 implementation. This flaw does not adequately validate length values during the decoding of ASN.1 BER data. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by providing malformed data, which can result in a denial of service through crashes or potentially executing arbitrary code. The vulnerability stems from errors such as receiving a length greater than the buffer size, an object identifier length of zero leading to off-by-one errors, or handling of indefinite lengths in primitive encodings.

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