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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201408-09">
  <title>GNU Libtasn1: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Libtasn1, the
    worse of which can allow a context-dependent attacker to cause a Denial of
    Service condition. 
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libtasn1</product>
  <announced>2014-08-29</announced>
  <revised count="1">2014-08-29</revised>
  <bug>511536</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/libtasn1" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.6</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.6</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Libtasn1. Please
      review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A context-dependent attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service
      condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All GNU Libtasn1 users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/libtasn1-3.6"
    </code>
    
    <p>Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools
      such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages. 
    </p>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3467">CVE-2014-3467</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3468">CVE-2014-3468</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3469">CVE-2014-3469</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-06-17T17:44:50Z">K_F</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-08-29T09:17:19Z">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>