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In vein of general ASN.1 trivia in other comments, how many people rememer the ASN.1 doom of 2002?

Almost everything running SNMP had remote pre-auth vulns and on multiple levels - on the ASN.1 encoding side plus on the levels above that. And most of the SNMP managed gear was things like routers and switches and printers that were a nightmare to upgrade, or even exhaustively enumerate in your network.

https://www.cert.org/historical/advisories/CA-2002-03.cfm



watching the error path cleanups in libasn1 in LibreSSL is scary indeed. It's a very complex API indeed, compared to something like the PolarSSL implementation. Undoubtedly more such bugs lurking that will affect routers, printers and other embedded gear for decades to come.




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