Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-3568 libtasn1-6 - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
Pascal Cuoq and Miod Vallat discovered that Libtasn1, a library tomanage ASN.1 structures, does not correctly handle certain malformed DERcertificates. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to causean application using the Libtasn1 library to hang, resulting in a denialof service.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3568