[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: mingw-gnutls-2.12.17-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-4451
2012-03-23 00:29:08
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Name        : mingw-gnutls
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.12.17
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://www.gnutls.org/
Summary     : MinGW GnuTLS TLS/SSL encryption library
Description :
GnuTLS TLS/SSL encryption library.  This library is cross-compiled
for MinGW.

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Update Information:

This update fixes a a DER decoding buffer overflow in the MinGW cross compiled libtasn1 and gnutls packages. The mingw-gnutls build also switches to using the system libtasn1 library instead of its bundled copy.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #804920 - CVE-2012-1569 libtasn1: DER decoding buffer overflow (GNUTLS-SA-2012-3, MU-201202-02)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804920
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update mingw-gnutls' at the command line.
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