Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-9600 (gnutls)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: gnutls-1.6.3-5.fc8
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Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:00:29 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-9600
2008-11-12 01:59:08
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Name        : gnutls
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.6.3
Release     : 5.fc8
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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ChangeLog:

* Tue Nov 11 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.6.3-5
- fix chain verification issue CVE-2008-4989 (#470079)
* Fri Jun 20 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.6.3-4
- backported fix for compression support (#451952)
* 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)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #470079 - CVE-2008-4989 gnutls: certificate chain verification flaw
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470079
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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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