GNU Libtasn1 4.8 released

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

GNU Libtasn1 is a standalone library written in C for manipulating
ASN.1 objects including DER/BER encoding/decoding.  GNU Libtasn1 is
used by GnuTLS to handle X.509 structures and by GNU Shishi to handle
Kerberos V5 structures.

This release among other improvements prevents of a possible DoS
(infinite loop) in the decoding of BER structures.

* Noteworthy changes in release 4.8 (released 2016-04-11) [stable]
- Fixes to avoid reliance on C undefined behavior.
- Fixes to avoid an infinite recursion when decoding without
  the ASN1_DECODE_FLAG_STRICT_DER flag. Reported by Pascal Cuoq.
- Combined all the BER octet string decoding functions to a single
  one based on asn1_decode_simple_ber().


Homepage:
  https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/

Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-4.8.tar.gz
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-4.8.tar.gz

Here are GPG detached signatures:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-4.8.tar.gz.sig
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-4.8.tar.gz.sig

If you need help to use Libtasn1, or want to help others, you are
invited to join the help-libtasn1 mailing list, see:
  https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-libtasn1

All manuals are available from:
  https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/manual/

Direct links to the manual:
  HTML: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/manual/libtasn1.html
  PDF: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/manual/libtasn1.pdf

Direct links to the API Reference manual:
  HTML: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/reference/
  PDF: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/reference/libtasn1.pdf

The software is cryptographically signed by the author using an
OpenPGP key identified by the following information:

pub   3104R/96865171 2008-05-04 [expires: 2028-04-29]
uid                  Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav <at> gnutls.org>
uid                  Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos <at>
gmail.com>
sub   2048R/9013B842 2008-05-04 [expires: 2018-05-02]
sub   2048R/1404A91D 2008-05-04 [expires: 2018-05-02]

regards,
Nikos