PYSEC-2026-3455

pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.4, the BER decoder shared by the CER and DER codecs parses long-form tags by accumulating continuation octets without an upper bound on the tag ID size, allowing a crafted input to force construction of an arbitrarily large integer with C...

CAN-2003-0543/0544 OpenSSL ASN.1 protocol crashes

OpenSSL 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 does not properly track the number of characters in certain ASN.1 inputs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via an SSL client certificate that causes OpenSSL to read past the end of a buffer when the long form is used...