[PLSA 2008-70] GnuTLS: Security Bypass

[Pınar Yanardağ <pinar () pardus org tr>]

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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-70            security () pardus org tr
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      Date: 2008-11-14
  Severity: 3
      Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been reported in GnuTLS, which can be exploited  by 
malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions. 


Description
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The vulnerability is caused due to an error when validating  the  X.509 
certificate chain and can be exploited to spoof  arbitrary  names  e.g. 
during a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack. 


Affected packages:

  Pardus 2008:
    gnutls, all before 2.2.5-13-5


Resolution
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There are update(s) for gnutls. You can update them via Package Manager 
or with a single command from console: 

    pisi up gnutls

References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8626
  * http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3215
  * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4989

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-- 
Pardus Security Team
http://security.pardus.org.tr


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