[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: libtasn1-4.5-1.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-7288
2015-05-01 11:26:45
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Name        : libtasn1
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 4.5
Release     : 1.fc21
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/
Summary     : The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS
Description :
A library that provides Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1, as specified
by the X.680 ITU-T recommendation) parsing and structures management, and
Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER, as per X.690) encoding and decoding functions.

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Update Information:

Update to 4.5 (#1217282)
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Apr 30 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 4.5-1
- Update to 4.5 (#1217282)
* Mon Mar 30 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 4.4-1
- new upstream release (#1206968)
- fixes stack overflow in DER decoder
* Tue Mar 10 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com> - 4.3-1
- new upstream release
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1218141 - CVE-2015-3622 libtasn1: heap overflow flaw in _asn1_extract_der_octet()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218141
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