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Fedora 24 FEDORA-2016-048ffb6235 Critical: LibTasn1 Infinite Loop

fedora
Calendar Grey April 15, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
New release of libtasn1 in Fedora 24 addresses severe decoding problems in ASN.1 framework. Update through dnf.
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 critical Fedora parsing issue 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 24
Version: 4.8
Release: 1.fc24
URL:
Summary: The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora parsing issue libtasn1

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