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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-3263-1 libtasn1-6 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

09 Jan 2023

Affected Packages:

libtasn1-6

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-46848.

More information:

It was discovered that there was an off-by-one array size issue in libtasn1-6, a library to manage the generic ASN.1 data structure.

• CVE-2021-46848

  GNU Libtasn1 before 4.19.0 has an ETYPE_OK off-by-one array size check that affects asn1_encode_simple_der.

For Debian 10 Buster, this problem has been fixed in version 4.13-3+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libtasn1-6 packages.

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