USN-3309-2: Libtasn1 vulnerability
18 July 2017
Libtasn1 could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- libtasn1-3 - Library to manage ASN.1 structures
Details
Jakub Jirasek discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled certain
assignments files. If a user were tricked into processing a specially
crafted assignments file, a remote attacker could possibly execute arbirary
code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-3309-1: libtasn1-doc, libtasn1-3-bin, libtasn1-6, libtasn1-6-dev, libtasn1-3-dev, libtasn1-bin