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Posted on 26 December 2016
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3748-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Sebastien Delafond
December 26, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : libcrypto++
CVE ID : CVE-2016-9939
Debian Bug : 848009
Gergely Gábor Nagy from Tresorit discovered that libcrypto++, a C++
cryptographic library, contained a bug in several ASN.1 parsing
routines. This would allow an attacker to remotely cause a denial of
service.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.6.1-6+deb8u3.
For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, this
problem has been fixed in version 5.6.4-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your libcrypto++ packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
