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PLSA-2008-70.txt

Posted on 14 November 2008
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-70 security@pardus.org.tr
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Date: 2008-11-14
Severity: 3
Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been reported in GnuTLS, which can be exploited by
malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.


Description
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The vulnerability is caused due to an error when validating the X.509
certificate chain and can be exploited to spoof arbitrary names e.g.
during a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack.


Affected packages:

Pardus 2008:
gnutls, all before 2.2.5-13-5


Resolution
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There are update(s) for gnutls. You can update them via Package Manager
or with a single command from console:

pisi up gnutls

References
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* http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8626
* http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3215
* http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4989

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http://security.pardus.org.tr


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