GnuTLS: Critical Advisory for Server Code Execution Risk on Linux Clients

Jun 02, 2014 •

Anthony Pell

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security advisory security issue Red Hat critical GnuTLS server code execution linux client

The maintainers of GnuTLS, a secure communications library used in Red Hat, Ubuntu other Linux distributions, have released fixes for a critical bug affecting the client-side of the software. The newly discovered vulnerability could allow a malicious server to execute code at its discretion on a requesting client, GnuTLS maintainers said in advisory published on Saturday.

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