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Fedora 21: 2015-5114 Critical Fix For LibTASN1 Stack Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Ubuntu 22.04 libxml2 patch rectifies a buffer overflow, bolstering system integrity and improving security measures.
new upstream release (#1206968)

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:

new upstream release (#1206968)

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical fix stack overflow libtasn1

Change Log

* Mon Mar 30 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos - 4.4-1 - new upstream release (#1206968) - fixes stack overflow in DER decoder * Tue Mar 10 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos - 4.3-1 - new upstream release

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 .

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Name: libtasn1
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 4.4
Release: 1.fc21
URL:
Summary: The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical fix stack overflow libtasn1

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