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Fedora 21: GnuTLS 3.3.17 Critical Update - TLS Enhancement

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Calendar Grey August 18, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
OpenSSL security enhancement for Fedora 22 featuring updates and corrections for encrypted data transmission standards.
updated to 3.3.17

Summary

GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS

protocols and technologies around them. It provides a simple C language

application programming interface (API) to access the secure communications

protocols as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PKCS #12, OpenPGP and

other required structures.

Update Information:

updated to 3.3.17

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical update secure communications GnuTLS TLS improvement

Change Log

* Mon Jul 13 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos - 3.3.17-1 - updated to 3.3.17 * Mon Jul 13 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos - 3.3.16-1 - updated to 3.3.16 * Mon May 4 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos - 3.3.15-1 - updated to 3.3.15 (#1218426,#1218513) * Mon Mar 30 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 3.3.14-1 - new upstream release - improved BER decoding of PKCS #12 structures (#1131461) * Thu Feb 26 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 3.3.13-1 - new upstream release - Make build verbose - Use %license * Mon Jan 19 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 3.3.12-1 - new upstream release * Mon Jan 5 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 3.3.11-2 - enabled guile bindings (#1177847) * Thu Dec 11 2014 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 3.3.11-1 - new upstream release

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1251902 - gnutls: double free flaw in certificate DN decoding (GNUTLS-SA-2015-3) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251902

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gnutls' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: gnutls
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 3.3.17
Release: 1.fc21
URL: http://www.gnutls.org/
Summary: A TLS protocol implementation

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical update secure communications GnuTLS TLS improvement

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