Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-4409 (mingw-libtasn1)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: mingw-libtasn1-2.12-1.fc16 | |
| Date: | Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:19:25 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20120331031925.67F9F215DA@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> | |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-4409 2012-03-22 01:26:59 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : mingw-libtasn1 Product : Fedora 16 Version : 2.12 Release : 1.fc16 URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/ Summary : MinGW Windows libtasn1 library Description : libtasn1 is the ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS. This package contains the MinGW Windows cross compiled libtasn1 library. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes a a DER decoding buffer overflow in the MinGW cross compiled libtasn1 and gnutls packages. The mingw-gnutls build also switches to using the system libtasn1 library instead of its bundled copy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Mar 20 2012 Kalev Lember <kalevlember@gmail.com> - 2.12-1 - Update to 2.12 (#804920) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #804920 - CVE-2012-1569 libtasn1: DER decoding buffer overflow (GNUTLS-SA-2012-3, MU-201202-02) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804920 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mingw-libtasn1' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...