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Fedora 25 GnuTLS Update: Critical Security Issue Resolved

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OpenSSL vulnerability patch for Fedora 25 resolves serious flaws and introduces improved TLS protocols for safer data exchange.
- Update to upstream 3.5.13 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 to upstream 3.5.13 release

[ 1 ] Bug #1454411

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1454411

[ 2 ] Bug #1459795 - CVE-2017-7507 gnutls: Crash upon receiving well-formed status_request extension [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459795

su -c 'dnf upgrade gnutls' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 3.5.13
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: A TLS protocol implementation

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