USN-5707-1: Libtasn1 vulnerability

Publication date

31 October 2022

Overview

Libtasn1 could cause a crash when processing certain inputs.

Releases

16.04 LTS

Packages

It was discovered that Libtasn1 did not properly perform bounds
checking. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
crash.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
16.04 xenial	libtasn1-6 – 4.7-3ubuntu0.16.04.3+esm3

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