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[slackware-security] gnutls (SSA:2024-079-01)

Posted on 20 March 2024
Slackware Security

[slackware-security] gnutls (SSA:2024-079-01)

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to
fix security issues.


Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/gnutls-3.8.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes two medium severity security issues:
libgnutls: Fix side-channel in the deterministic ECDSA.
Reported by George Pantelakis (#1516).
libgnutls: Fixed a bug where certtool crashed when verifying a certificate
chain with more than 16 certificates. Reported by William Woodruff (#1525)
and yixiangzhike (#1527).
For more information, see:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28834
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28835
(* Security fix *)
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Where to find the new packages:
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Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)

Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/gnutls-3.8.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/gnutls-3.8.4-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/gnutls-3.8.4-i586-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/gnutls-3.8.4-x86_64-1.txz


MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 15.0 package:
2ed3c47691977050c7f0f0b696a922a9 gnutls-3.8.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
2f7109962a61f3a83112e1477ef4df94 gnutls-3.8.4-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
105f92ad0cf3382774f7c987b983f31a n/gnutls-3.8.4-i586-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
6c66cf1248836f79d270bdbfc292f26d n/gnutls-3.8.4-x86_64-1.txz


Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg gnutls-3.8.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz


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Slackware Linux Security Team
http://slackware.com/gpg-key
security@slackware.com

 

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