[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: gnutls-2.8.6-2.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-9487
2010-06-04 17:59:11
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Name        : gnutls
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 2.8.6
Release     : 2.fc12
URL         : http://www.gnutls.org/
Summary     : A TLS protocol implementation
Description :
GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure
layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implements
the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group.

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Update Information:

Add implementation of the safe renegotiation extension to fix the CVE-2009-3555
security vulnerability.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun  2 2010 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.8.6-2
- add support for safe renegotiation CVE-2009-3555 (#533125)
* Wed May 12 2010 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.8.6-1
- upgrade to a new upstream version
* Mon Feb 15 2010 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> 2.8.5-4
- FTBFS gnutls-2.8.5-3.fc13: ImplicitDSOLinking (#564624)
* Thu Jan 28 2010 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.8.5-3
- drop superfluous rpath from binaries
- do not call autoreconf during build
- specify the license on utils subpackage
* Mon Jan 18 2010 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.8.5-2
- do not create static libraries (#556052)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #533125 - CVE-2009-3555 TLS: MITM attacks via session renegotiation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533125
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gnutls' at the command line.
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