[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gnutls-2.12.23-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-2892
2013-02-24 07:36:41
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Name        : gnutls
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 2.12.23
Release     : 1.fc18
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:

Minor security and bugfix update from upstream.

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Feb 21 2013 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.23-1
- new upstream version fixing TLS-CBC timing attack
* Tue Jan  8 2013 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.22-1
- new upstream version
* Wed Nov 28 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.21-2
- use RSA bit sizes supported by libgcrypt in FIPS mode for security
  levels (#879643)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #908238 - CVE-2013-1619 gnutls: TLS CBC padding timing attack (lucky-13)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908238
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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