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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2015-6542 Urgent: libgcrypt Memory Leak

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libtasn1 4.4 release, fixing CVE-2015-2806

Summary

libtasn1 is the ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS.

This package contains the MinGW Windows cross compiled libtasn1 library.

Update Information:

libtasn1 4.4 release, fixing CVE-2015-2806.

GnuTLS 3.3.14 release

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security advisory fedora critical stack overflow libtasn1

Change Log

* Tue Mar 31 2015 Kalev Lember - 4.4-1 - Update to 4.4 (CVE-2015-2806)

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 mingw-libtasn1'''' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mingw-libtasn1
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 4.4
Release: 1.fc21
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Summary: MinGW Windows libtasn1 library

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security advisory fedora critical stack overflow libtasn1

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