Gentoo: 200602-08 High Severity: libtasn1 DER Decoding Flaw
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February 16, 2006
A flaw in the parsing of Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) has been discovered in libtasn1, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200602-08
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: libtasn1, GNU TLS: Security flaw in DER decoding
Date: February 16, 2006
Bugs: #122307
ID: 200602-08
Synopsis
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A flaw in the parsing of Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) has been
discovered in libtasn1, potentially resulting in the execution of
arbitrary code.
Background
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Libtasn1 is a library used to parse ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation
One) objects, and perform DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) decoding.
Libtasn1 is included with the GNU TLS library, which is used by
applications to provide a cryptographically secure communications
channel.
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