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openSUSE: 2019:2514-1 Moderate: libtomcrypt Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE Security Alert: libtomcrypt addresses faulty UTF-8 validation causing potential denial of service vulnerabilities. Immediate action advised.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for libtomcrypt fixes the following issue:

CVE-2019-17362: Fixed an improper detection of invalid UTF-8 sequences

that could have led to DoS or information disclosure via crafted

DER-encoded data (bsc#1153433).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2514=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

libtomcrypt-debugsource-1.17-lp151.3.3.1

libtomcrypt-devel-1.17-lp151.3.3.1

libtomcrypt-examples-1.17-lp151.3.3.1

libtomcrypt0-1.17-lp151.3.3.1

libtomcrypt0-debuginfo-1.17-lp151.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17362.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1153433

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2514-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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