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Gentoo: GLSA-200505-04 Normal: GnuTLS Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
OpenSSL encounters security vulnerability in Debian, necessitating urgent updates to protect user privacy.
The GnuTLS library is vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200505-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: GnuTLS: Denial of Service vulnerability Date: May 09, 2005 Bugs: #90726 ID: 200505-04

Synopsis ======= The GnuTLS library is vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks.
Background ========= GnuTLS is a free TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 implementation for the GNU project.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-libs/gnutls < 1.2.3 >= 1.2.3 *>= 1.0.25
========== A vulnerability has been discovered in the record packet parsing in the GnuTLS library. Additionally, a flaw was also found in the RSA key...

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