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openSUSE 12.3: 2014:0328-1 Critical: gnutls Certificate Flaw

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Calendar Grey March 5, 2014
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important announcement regarding openSUSE: gnutls addresses problems with SSL certificate validation to mitigate potential threats.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

The gnutls library was updated to fix SSL certificate

validation. Remote man-in-the-middle attackers were able to

make the verification believe that a SSL certificate is

valid even though it was not.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 12.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-183

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

Package List

- openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64):

gnutls-3.0.28-1.4.1

gnutls-debuginfo-3.0.28-1.4.1

gnutls-debugsource-3.0.28-1.4.1

libgnutls-devel-3.0.28-1.4.1

libgnutls-openssl-devel-3.0.28-1.4.1

libgnutls-openssl27-3.0.28-1.4.1

libgnutls-openssl27-debuginfo-3.0.28-1.4.1

libgnutls28-3.0.28-1.4.1

libgnutls28-debuginfo-3.0.28-1.4.1

libgnutlsxx-devel-3.0.28-1.4.1

libgnutlsxx28-3.0.28-1.4.1

libgnutlsxx28-debuginfo-3.0.28-1.4.1

- openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64):

libgnutls-devel-32bit-3.0.28-1.4.1

libgnutls28-32bit-3.0.28-1.4.1

libgnutls28-debuginfo-32bit-3.0.28-1.4.1

References

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

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:0328-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE 12.3 .

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