Security
Security
A flaw in the parsing of Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) has been discovered in libtasn1, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
| Package | dev-libs/libtasn1 on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 0.2.18 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 0.2.18 |
| Package | net-libs/gnutls on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 1.2.10 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 1.2.10 |
Libtasn1 is a library used to parse ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) objects, and perform DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) decoding. Libtasn1 is included with the GNU TLS library, which is used by applications to provide a cryptographically secure communications channel.
Evgeny Legerov has reported a flaw in the DER decoding routines provided by libtasn1, which could cause an out of bounds access to occur.
A remote attacker could cause an application using libtasn1 to crash and potentially execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted input.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All libtasn1 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/libtasn1-0.2.18"
All GNU TLS users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-libs/gnutls-1.2.10"
Release date
February 16, 2006
Latest revision
February 16, 2006: 01
Severity
high
Exploitable
remote
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