gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201509-04.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201509-04">
  <title>libtasn1: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libtasn1, the worst of
    which could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libtasn1</product>
  <announced>September 24, 2015</announced>
  <revised>September 24, 2015: 1</revised>
  <bug>544922</bug>
  <bug>548252</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/libtasn1" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.4.5</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.5</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>libtasn1 is an ASN.1 library</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libtasn1. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All libtasn1 users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/libtasn1-1.4.5"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-2806">CVE-2015-2806</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3622">CVE-2015-3622</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 28 May 2015 20:52:49 +0000">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:57:37 +0000">mrueg</metadata>
</glsa>