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Slackware 14.0: 2013-242-03 Moderate GnuTLS Side-Channel Attack

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Calendar Grey August 30, 2013
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Immediate gnutls patch for Slackware 14.0 addressing severe side-channel vulnerabilities to avert potential exploits.
New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnutls-3.0.31-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. [Updated to the correct version to fix fetching the "latest" from gnu.org] This update prevents a side-channel attack which may allow remote attackers to conduct distinguishing attacks and plaintext recovery attacks using statistical analysis of timing data for crafted packets. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1619 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue remote attack slackware gnutls side-channel

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: deffffdf6b2a432a11fde60237892407 gnutls-3.0.31-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 7c035da64b6f6b981b9479a49944257f gnutls-3.0.31-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 66c5b3d438a7833f5ff1266c2f11a816 n/gnutls-3.0.31-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: f09cf7bd0ab4f89212ab10aaef495fa1 n/gnutls-3.0.31-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue remote attack slackware gnutls side-channel

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gnutls-3.0.31-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

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