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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703256
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3256-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libtasn1-6' package(s) announced via the DSA-3256-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libtasn1-6' package(s) announced via the DSA-3256-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Hanno Boeck discovered a heap-based buffer overflow flaw in the way Libtasn1, a library to manage ASN.1 structures, decoded certain DER-encoded input. A specially crafted DER-encoded input could cause an application using the Libtasn1 library to crash, or potentially to execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 4.2-3+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.4-3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.4-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libtasn1-6 packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'libtasn1-6' package(s) on Debian 8.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-3622
BugTraq ID: 74419
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74419
Debian Security Information: DSA-3256 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3256
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158225.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/109
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201509-04
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:232
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131711/libtasn1-Heap-Overflow.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libtasn1/2015-04/msg00000.html
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2017:1860
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1860
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032246
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:1372 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00014.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:1567 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00047.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:1674 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00097.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2604-1
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