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Scientific Linux SL5.x Security Advisory: gnutls Moderate Threat

Calendar Nov 12, 2008 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory security issue moderate severity gnutls Scientific Linux certificate spoofing
Moderate: gnutls security update 
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:26:34 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for gnutls on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: gnutls security update
Issue date:	2008-11-11
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-4989

Martin von Gagern discovered a flaw in the way GnuTLS verified certificate
chains provided by a server. A malicious server could use this flaw to
spoof its identity by tricking client applications using the GnuTLS library
to trust invalid certificates. (CVE-2008-4989)

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.src.rpm
 i386:
gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
gnutls-devel-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
gnutls-utils-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
gnutls-devel-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
gnutls-devel-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
gnutls-utils-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson