Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3568 libtasn1-6 – security update

Pascal Cuoq and Miod Vallat discovered that Libtasn1, a library to
manage ASN.1 structures, does not correctly handle certain malformed DER
certificates. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause
an application using the Libtasn1 library to hang, resulting in a denial
of service.

DSA-3570 mercurial – security update

Blake Burkhart discovered an arbitrary code execution flaw in
Mercurial, a distributed version control system, when using the convert
extension on Git repositories with specially crafted names. This flaw in
particular affects automated code conversion services that allow
arbitrary repository names.