Mageia alert MGASA-2025-0043 (libtasn1)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2025-0043: Updated libtasn1 packages fix security vulnerability
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Sat, 08 Feb 2025 03:23:34 +0100
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Article
MGASA-2025-0043 - Updated libtasn1 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 08 Feb 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0043.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 9
CVE: CVE-2024-12133

Description:
When an input DER data contains a large number of SEQUENCE OF or SET OF
elements, decoding the data and searching a specific element in it take
quadratic time to complete. This could be utilized for a remote DoS
attack by presenting a crafted certificate to the network peer.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33993
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/06/6
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-1...

SRPMS:
- 9/core/libtasn1-4.20.0-1.mga9