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openSUSE 13.1: 2014:0325-1 Critical: gnutls SSL Certificate Risk

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Calendar Grey March 5, 2014
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
OpenSUSE gnutls enhancement resolves SSL certificate verification issues in secure communications.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

The gnutls library was updated to fixed x509 certificate

validation problems, where man-in-the-middle attackers could hijack SSL connections.

This update also reenables Elliptic Curve support to meet

current day cryptographic requirements.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-181

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

gnutls-3.2.4-2.14.1

gnutls-debuginfo-3.2.4-2.14.1

gnutls-debugsource-3.2.4-2.14.1

libgnutls-devel-3.2.4-2.14.1

libgnutls-openssl-devel-3.2.4-2.14.1

libgnutls-openssl27-3.2.4-2.14.1

libgnutls-openssl27-debuginfo-3.2.4-2.14.1

libgnutls28-3.2.4-2.14.1

libgnutls28-debuginfo-3.2.4-2.14.1

libgnutlsxx-devel-3.2.4-2.14.1

libgnutlsxx28-3.2.4-2.14.1

libgnutlsxx28-debuginfo-3.2.4-2.14.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

libgnutls-devel-32bit-3.2.4-2.14.1

libgnutls28-32bit-3.2.4-2.14.1

libgnutls28-debuginfo-32bit-3.2.4-2.14.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0092.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:0325-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 .

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