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Fedora 25: GnuTLS Update, Moderate Severity: Certificate Validation Issue

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Calendar Grey September 12, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 25 has released a GnuTLS update to fix critical vulnerabilities in certificate validation. Users must apply this critical update to enhance security
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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora gnutls TLS certificate validation C

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 .

Name: gnutls
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 3.5.4
Release: 1.fc25
URL: http://www.gnutls.org/
Summary: A TLS protocol implementation

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora gnutls TLS certificate validation C

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