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Fedora 21: 2015-5245 Critical: GnuTLS Update for libtasn1 Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora users receive a MinGW GnuTLS security patch enhancing defenses against libtasn1 weaknesses, ensuring stronger encryption protocols.
libtasn1 4.4 release, fixing CVE-2015-2806

Summary

GnuTLS TLS/SSL encryption library. This library is cross-compiled

for MinGW.

Update Information:

libtasn1 4.4 release, fixing CVE-2015-2806.

GnuTLS 3.3.14 release

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora GnuTLS libtasn1 encryption library

Change Log

* Wed Apr 1 2015 Michael Cronenworth - 3.3.14-1 - Update to 3.3.14 * Fri Jan 30 2015 Michael Cronenworth - 3.3.12-1 - Update to 3.3.12 * Mon Dec 15 2014 Michael Cronenworth - 3.3.11-1

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1207192 - CVE-2015-2806 libtasn1: stack overflow in asn1_der_decoding https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207192

Update Instructions

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

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Name: mingw-gnutls
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 3.3.14
Release: 1.fc21
URL: http://www.gnutls.org/
Summary: MinGW GnuTLS TLS/SSL encryption library

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora GnuTLS libtasn1 encryption library

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