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breach watch Ubuntu security notices September 01, 2026

USN-8712-1: pyasn1 vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that pyasn1 did not properly bound the size of long-form tag identifiers when parsing BER, CER, or DER encoded data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications decoding untrusted ASN.1 data to consume excessive CPU resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-59884) It was discovered that pyasn1 processed OBJECT IDENTIFIER and RELATIVE-OID values in quadratic time relative to the number of arcs.

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