[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gnutls-2.12.23-2.fc18
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Tue Jun 11 09:08:17 UTC 2013
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-9792
2013-06-01 01:39:25
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Name : gnutls
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 2.12.23
Release : 2.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:
Important security update - possible DoS of both client and server.
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ChangeLog:
* Fri May 31 2013 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.23-2
- fix CVE-2013-2116 - regression from the TLS-CBC timing attack fix (#966754)
* 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 #966754 - CVE-2013-2116 gnutls: out of bounds read in _gnutls_ciphertext2compressed (GNUTLS-SA-2013-2)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=966754
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gnutls' at the command line.
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