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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-5308
2015-04-02 00:26:40
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Name        : mingw-gnutls
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 3.3.14
Release     : 1.fc22
URL         : http://www.gnutls.org/
Summary     : MinGW GnuTLS TLS/SSL encryption library
Description :
GnuTLS TLS/SSL encryption library.  This library is cross-compiled
for MinGW.

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Update Information:

libtasn1 4.4 release, fixing CVE-2015-2806.

GnuTLS 3.3.14 release

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References:

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 22: mingw-gnutls Security Update

April 21, 2015
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

Change Log

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 .

Severity
Name : mingw-gnutls
Product : Fedora 22
Version : 3.3.14
Release : 1.fc22
URL : http://www.gnutls.org/
Summary : MinGW GnuTLS TLS/SSL encryption library

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