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Security vulnerability: libtasn1
- From: "Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:28:49 -0600
- Subject: Security vulnerability: libtasn1
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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.
Solution: upgrade to 0.2.18.
More information:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200602-08.xml
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0645
What's written there about gnutls also being affected shouldn't apply to
us, since our gnutls uses the external libtasn1 instead of the included
copy, but please double-check.
Yaakov
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