Fedora 20: libtasn1 Security Update
Summary
A library that provides Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1, as specified
by the X.680 ITU-T recommendation) parsing and structures management, and
Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER, as per X.690) encoding and decoding functions.
Update Information:
backported fix for stack overflow in DER decoder
Change Log
* Mon Mar 30 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1207192 - CVE-2015-2806 libtasn1: stack overflow in asn1_der_decoding https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207192
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libtasn1' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .