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[advisory]
id = "RUSTSEC-2021-0125"
package = "simple_asn1"
date = "2021-11-14"
url = "https://github.com/acw/simple_asn1/issues/27"
categories = ["denial-of-service"]
keywords = ["panic", "string_slice"]
#aliases = ["CVE-YYYY-NNNN"]
#cvss = "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"

[versions]
patched = [">=0.6.1"]
unaffected = ["<0.6.0"]

Panic on incorrect date input to simple_asn1

Version 0.6.0 of the simple_asn1 crate panics on certain malformed inputs to its parsing functions, including from_der and der_decode. Because this crate is frequently used with inputs from the network, this should be considered a security vulnerability.

The issue occurs when parsing the old ASN.1 "UTCTime" time format. If an attacker provides a UTCTime where the first character is ASCII but the second character is above 0x7f, a string slice operation in the from_der_ function will try to slice into the middle of a UTF-8 character, and cause a panic.

This error was introduced in commit d7d39d709577710e9dc8, which updated simple_asn1 to use time instead of chrono because of RUSTSEC-2020-159. Versions of simple_asn1 before 0.6.0 are not affected by this issue.

The patch was applied in simple_asn1 version 0.6.1.