[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: libtasn1-3.8-3.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-5182
2015-03-31 17:08:49
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Name        : libtasn1
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 3.8
Release     : 3.fc20
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/
Summary     : The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS
Description :
A library that provides Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1, as specified
by the X.680 ITU-T recommendation) parsing and structures management, and
Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER, as per X.690) encoding and decoding functions.

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Update Information:

backported fix for stack overflow in DER decoder
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Mar 30 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 3.8-3
- backported fix for stack overflow in DER decoder
* Thu Sep  4 2014 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 3.8-2
- added bug fix for octet string decoding (#1138218)
* Mon Aug 25 2014 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 3.8-1
- new upstream release
* Mon Jun 30 2014 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 3.7-1
- new upstream release
* Mon May 26 2014 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 3.6-1
- new upstream release
* Fri May  2 2014 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 3.5-1
- new upstream release
* Wed Nov 27 2013 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 3.4-1
- new upstream release
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1207192 - CVE-2015-2806 libtasn1: stack overflow in asn1_der_decoding
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207192
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