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Debian DSA-2981-1: PolarSSL Critical Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2014
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2982-2 highlights a vulnerability in GnuTLS that could lead to service disruption; users are urged to update their installations.
A flaw was discovered in PolarSSL, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library, which can be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to mount a denial of service against PolarS...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.9-1~deb7u3.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.7-2.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.7-2.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your polarssl 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/



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Package: polarssl
CVE ID: CVE-2014-4911

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