-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-4183 2008-05-21 06:57:45 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : gnutls Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.6.3 Release : 3.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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fixes critical security issue GNUTLS-SA-2008-1 described here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00060.html All applications and system services which utilize gnutls library must be restarted for the updates to take effect. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue May 20 2008 Tomas Mraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.6.3-3 - fix three security issues in gnutls handshake - GNUTLS-SA-2008-1 (#447461, #447462, #447463) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #447462 - CVE-2008-1949 GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-2 GnuTLS null-pointer dereference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447462 [ 2 ] Bug #447463 - CVE-2008-1950 GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-3 GnuTLS memory overread flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447463 [ 3 ] Bug #447461 - CVE-2008-1948 GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-1 GnuTLS buffer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447461 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-announce