LWN.net Logo

Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-8565 (gnutls)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: gnutls-2.6.6-3.fc11
Date:  Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:07:02 +0000
Message-ID:  <20090925200702.DCDFB10F88A@bastion2.fedora.phx.redhat.com>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-8565 2009-08-15 07:17:23 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : gnutls Product : Fedora 11 Version : 2.6.6 Release : 3.fc11 URL : http://www.gnutls.org/ Summary : A TLS protocol implementation Description : GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implements the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes handling of NUL characters in certificate Common Name or subjectAltName fields especially in regards to comparsion to hostnames. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Sep 23 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 2.6.6-3 - fix handling of hostname in openpgp certificates * Fri Aug 14 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 2.6.6-2 - fix CVE-2009-2730 - handling of NUL chars in certificate CNs and SANs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #516231 - CVE-2009-2730 gnutls: incorrect verification of SSL certificate with NUL in name (GNUTLS-SA-2009-4) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516231 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gnutls' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


(Log in to post comments)

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds