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Fedora 33: 2021-01-05 Critical: perl-Convert-ASN1 Infinite Loop

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Calendar Grey January 4, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security update for perl-Convert-ASN1 in Fedora 33 resolves an infinite loop vulnerability associated with CVE-2013-7488.
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 - 0.27-21

- 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

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 0.27
Release: 21.fc33
Summary: ASN.1 encode/decode library

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