Re: GNU Libtasn1 4.16.0 released

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 6:07 PM Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> * Noteworthy changes in release 4.16.0 (released 2020-02-01) [stable]
> -
> asn1_decode_simple_ber: added support for constructed definite
>   octet
> strings. This allows this function decode the whole set of
>   BER
> encodings for OCTET STRINGs.
> - asn1_get_object_id_der: enhance the range
> of decoded OIDs (#25).
>   This also makes OID encoding and decoding more
> strict on invalid
>   input. This may break gnutls' test suite before
> 3.6.12 as it was
>   relying on decoding some invalid OIDs.
> -
> asn1_object_id_der: New function

It looks like the GnuTLS download lacks 3.6.12:
https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.6/

Jeff