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Debian: DSA-2866-1 Moderate: GnuTLS Certificate Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2014
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 addresses a critical OpenSSL vulnerability that necessitates immediate patching.
Suman Jana reported that GnuTLS, deviating from the documented behavior, considers a version 1 intermediate certificate as a CA certificate by default
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Summary

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem as
X.509 version 1 trusted CA certificates are not allowed by default.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.12.20-8.

For the testing distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.12.23-12.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnutls26 packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



Package: gnutls26
CVE ID: CVE-2014-1959

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