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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4106-1 libtasn1-6 -- security update

Date Reported:

07 Feb 2018

Affected Packages:

libtasn1-6

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 867398.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-10790, CVE-2018-6003.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Libtasn1, a library to manage ASN.1 structures, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service against an application using the Libtasn1 library.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.10-1.1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libtasn1-6 packages.

For the detailed security status of libtasn1-6 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libtasn1-6