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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-7288
2015-05-01 11:26:45
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Name        : libtasn1
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 4.5
Release     : 1.fc21
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/
Summary     : The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

Update to 4.5 (#1217282)
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Apr 30 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos  - 4.5-1
- Update to 4.5 (#1217282)
* 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
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1218141 - CVE-2015-3622 libtasn1: heap overflow flaw in _asn1_extract_der_octet()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218141
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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 .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 21: libtasn1 Security Update

May 19, 2015
Update to 4.5 (#1217282)

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:

Update to 4.5 (#1217282)

Change Log

* Thu Apr 30 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos - 4.5-1 - Update to 4.5 (#1217282) * 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 #1218141 - CVE-2015-3622 libtasn1: heap overflow flaw in _asn1_extract_der_octet() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218141

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 .

Severity
Name : libtasn1
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 4.5
Release : 1.fc21
URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/
Summary : The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS

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