-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-8622 2009-08-15 07:21:54 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : gnutls Product : Fedora 10 Version : 2.4.2 Release : 5.fc10 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 <[email protected]> 2.4.2-5 - fix handling of hostname in openpgp certificates * Fri Aug 14 2009 Tomas Mraz <[email protected]> 2.4.2-4 - fix CVE-2009-2730 - handling of NUL chars in certificate CNs and SANs * Tue Nov 11 2008 Tomas Mraz <[email protected]> 2.4.2-3 - fix chain verification issue CVE-2008-4989 (#470079) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
