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Fedora 34: 2021-34567 Important: OpenSSL Memory Corruption Patch

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 has released a GnuTLS security patch addressing a significant double free vulnerability found in the decoding process of certificate DNs.
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 moderate fedora security fix gnutls double free

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1251902 - CVE-2015-6251 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 23
Version: 3.4.4
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://www.gnutls.org/
Summary: A TLS protocol implementation

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora security fix gnutls double free

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