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Fedora 23: 2016-2edb9adec8 Critical: GnuTLS Certificate Validation Fix

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security patch for gnutls on Fedora resolves problems with certificate verification in recent version.
New upstream release

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:

New upstream release

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical gnutls certificate validation

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1374266 - gnutls: Incorrect certificate validation when using OCSP responses (GNUTLS-SA-2016-3) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1374266

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 23
Version: 3.4.15
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://www.gnutls.org/
Summary: A TLS protocol implementation

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical gnutls certificate validation

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