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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-d8bc3a9874 Critical: perl-Convert-ASN1 Remote Threat

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Calendar Grey December 2, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Attention Fedora users: A security update is now available for CVE-2013-7488, which impacts perl-Convert-ASN1. Please take immediate action to secure your system.
Security fix for CVE-2013-7488

Summary

Convert::ASN1 encodes and decodes ASN.1 data structures using BER/DER rules.

Security fix for CVE-2013-7488

* Mon Nov 23 2020 Jitka Plesnikova - 0.27-19

- Fix unsafe decoding in indef case (CVE-2013-7488)

[ 1 ] Bug #1821879 - CVE-2013-7488 perl-Convert-ASN1: allows remote attackers to cause an infinite loop via unexpected input

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1821879

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-d8bc3a9874' 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 32
Version: 0.27
Release: 19.fc32
Summary: ASN.1 encode/decode library

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