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Fedora 27: 2017-abc12345fgh Severe DoS Vulnerability in libssl

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Fedora 26 upgrades mingw-gnutls to tackle TLS/SSL vulnerabilities, mitigating crash hazards while enhancing security protocols.
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-devel/2017-June/008446.html

Summary

GnuTLS TLS/SSL encryption library. This library is cross-compiled

for MinGW.

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-devel/2017-June/008446.html

[ 1 ] Bug #1459798 - CVE-2017-7507 mingw-gnutls: gnutls: Crash upon receiving well-formed status_request extension [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459798

su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-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

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 3.5.13
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: MinGW GnuTLS TLS/SSL encryption library

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