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Fedora 27: 2018-01-28 Critical: mingw-libtasn1 Stack Exhaustion Fix

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Calendar Grey January 28, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security update for Fedora 27 resolving a stack overflow vulnerability in mingw-libtasn1, essential for maintaining system integrity.
Fixes security issue.

Summary

libtasn1 is the ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS.

This package contains the MinGW Windows cross compiled libtasn1 library.

Fixes security issue.

[ 1 ] Bug #1535925 - CVE-2018-6003 mingw-libtasn1: libtasn1: Stack exhaustion due to indefinite recursion during BER decoding [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535925

su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-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: MinGW Windows libtasn1 library

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