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Fedora 22: 2016-96bfd9e873 Important: LibTasn1 Infinite Loop Issue

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Calendar Grey April 27, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A new version of the LibTasn1 library has been released for Fedora 22, addressing an infinite loop issue during DER certificate interpretation.
Update to 4.8

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 4.8

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora security fix ASN.1 infinite loop libtasn1

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1325965 - CVE-2016-4008 libtasn1: infinite loop while parsing DER certificates https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1325965

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 22
Version: 4.8
Release: 1.fc22
URL:
Summary: The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora security fix ASN.1 infinite loop libtasn1

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