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Fedora 26: 2017-5115baf0e6 Critical: libtasn1 Stack Overflow

fedora
Calendar Grey June 9, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Enhance libtasn1 to revision 4.12 on Fedora 26 to rectify a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability. Security advisory issued.
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

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 4.12
Release: 1.fc26
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Summary: The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS

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