Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-4274 (gnutls)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: gnutls-1.6.3-3.fc7
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Wed, 21 May 2008 11:08:14 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-4274
2008-05-21 07:11:34
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Name        : gnutls
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 1.6.3
Release     : 3.fc7
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.

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Update Information:

Fixes critical security issue GNUTLS-SA-2008-1 described here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/ms...    All
applications and system services which utilize gnutls library must be restarted
for the updates to take effect.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May 20 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.6.3-3
- fix three security issues in gnutls handshake - GNUTLS-SA-2008-1
  (#447461, #447462, #447463)
* Tue Aug 21 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.6.3-2
- license tag fix
* Wed Jun  6 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.6.3-1
- upgrade to latest upstream (#232445)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #447463 - CVE-2008-1950 GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-3 GnuTLS memory overread flaw
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447463
  [ 2 ] Bug #447461 - CVE-2008-1948 GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-1 GnuTLS buffer overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447461
  [ 3 ] Bug #447462 - CVE-2008-1949 GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-2 GnuTLS null-pointer dereference
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447462
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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/.

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