CVE-2025-13151 (GCVE-0-2025-13151)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-07 21:14 – Updated: 2026-01-20 17:08
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Title
CVE-2025-13151
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in libtasn1 version: v4.20.0. The function fails to validate the size of input data resulting in a buffer overflow in asn1_expend_octet_string.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GnuTLS libtasn1 Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.20.0 (semver)
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Credits
This issue was reported Benny Zelster from Microsoft Security Research
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