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Fedora 25: 2017-06-05 Moderate: LibTasn1 Buffer Overflow Exploit

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Important openssl update for Fedora 25 fixes potential vulnerabilities, enhancing security measures. Update now!
Update to 4.12 (#1456190)

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 to 4.12 (#1456190)

[ 1 ] Bug #1456190 - libtasn1-4.11 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1456190

[ 2 ] Bug #1456765 - CVE-2017-6891 libtasn1: Stack-based buffer overflow in asn1_find_node() [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1456765

su -c 'dnf upgrade libtasn1' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 4.12
Release: 1.fc25
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Summary: The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS

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