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Fedora 27 LibTasn1 Critical Update: Stack Exhaustion Risk

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important libtasn1 enhancement for Fedora 27 fixes stack overflow vulnerabilities due to deep decoding errors. Keep your system safe!
Update to 4.13 (#1535261)

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 4.13 (#1535261)

[ 1 ] Bug #1535578 - CVE-2018-6003 libtasn1: Stack exhaustion due to indefinite recursion during BER decoding

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535578

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 27
Version: 4.13
Release: 1.fc27
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Summary: The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS

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