Arch Linux: ASA-201504-3 Low Severity: Libtasn1 Stack Overflow Issue

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201504-3
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Severity: Low
Date    : 2015-04-03
CVE-ID  : CVE-2015-2806
Package : libtasn1
Type    : stack overflow
Remote  : No
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
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The package libtasn1 before version 4.4-1 is vulnerable to a two-byte
stack overflow in DER decoding.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 4.4-1.

# pacman -Syu "libtasn1>=4.4-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 4.4.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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A two-byte stack overflow has been found in the ASN.1 DER decoding logic
of libtasn1.

Impact
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An attacker may be able to crash a program using libtasn1 by submitting
a crafted X.509 structure to the program.

References
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2806
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libtasn1/2015-03/msg00002.html