Slackware 15.0 Security Advisory: 2024-079-01 Moderate Gnutls Issues
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March 20, 2024
New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnutls-3.8.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two medium severity security issues: libgnutls: Fix side-channel in the deterministic ECDSA. Reported by George Pantelakis (#1516). libgnutls: Fixed a bug where certtool crashed when verifying a certificate chain with more than 16 certificates. Reported by William Woodruff (#1525) and yixiangzhike (#1527). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28834 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28835 (* Security fix *)
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 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/gnutls-3.8.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/gnutls-3.8.4-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 15.0 package:
2ed3c47691977050c7f0f0b696a922a9 gnutls-3.8.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
2f7109962a61f3a83112e1477ef4df94 gnutls-3.8.4-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
105f92ad0cf3382774f7c987b983f31a n/gnutls-3.8.4-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
6c66cf1248836f79d270bdbfc292f26d n/gnutls-3.8.4-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gnutls-3.8.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
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