pyasn1: Quadratic-complexity denial of service in binary REAL decoding
CVE-2026-119197 is fixed in pyasn1 on 1 platform by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-119197 (version 0.6.5-1), released November 3, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.5, binary REAL decoding builds a large mantissa one octet at a time by shifting a growing integer and slicing the remaining byte string. Attacker-controlled ASN.1 includes a binary-encoded REAL with a large mantissa and reaches BER, CER, or DER decode(), with or without a schema containing REAL. RealPayloadDecoder.valueDecoder repeatedly performs a left shift, OR, and suffix copy for every mantissa octet, making decode time quadratic in mantissa length. A comparatively small REAL value can hold a decoding worker on one CPU core for seconds or longer and cause availability loss. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.5.
Where it's fixed
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | |||
| pyasn1 · Debian 14 | 0.6.5-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-119197 | Nov 3, 2026 |
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