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Debian: DSA-3568-1: libtasn1-6 security update

Date 05 May 2016

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

Pascal Cuoq and Miod Vallat discovered that Libtasn1, a library to manage ASN.1 structures, does not correctly handle certain malformed DER certificates. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the Libtasn1 library to hang, resulting in a denial


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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3568-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                     Salvatore Bonaccorso
May 05, 2016                          https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : libtasn1-6
CVE ID         : CVE-2016-4008

Pascal Cuoq and Miod Vallat discovered that Libtasn1, a library to
manage ASN.1 structures, does not correctly handle certain malformed DER
certificates. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause
an application using the Libtasn1 library to hang, resulting in a denial
of service.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.2-3+deb8u2.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 4.8-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.8-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libtasn1-6 packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

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