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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-4409
2012-03-22 01:26:59
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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.
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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.
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Mar 20 2012 Kalev Lember <kalevlember(a)gmail.com> - 2.12-1
- Update to 2.12 (#804920)
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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
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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/.
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