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Debian: DSA-3568-1 Moderate: Libtasn1 Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey May 5, 2016
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Update libtasn1-6 to address a Denial of Service vulnerability that impacts applications dependent on this library.
Pascal Cuoq and Miod Vallat discovered that Libtasn1, a library to manage ASN.1 structures, does not correctly handle certain malformed DER certificates
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Summary

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/



Package: libtasn1-6
CVE ID: CVE-2016-4008

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