[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: gnutls-2.12.14-2.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-4578
2012-03-24 00:05:10
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Name        : gnutls
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 2.12.14
Release     : 2.fc16
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:

Update fixing an important security issue and memory leak.

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ChangeLog:

* Fri Mar 23 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.14-2
- fix CVE-2012-1573 - incorrect checks when parsing packets (#805432)
- fix memory leak when generating keys (#796302)
* Tue Nov  8 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.14-1
- new upstream version
* Mon Oct 24 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.12-1
- new upstream version
* Thu Sep 29 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.11-1
- new upstream version
* Fri Aug 26 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.9-1
- new upstream version
* Tue Aug 16 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.8-1
- new upstream version
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #796302 - gnutls 2.12.14 leaks memory, needs an update
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796302
  [ 2 ] Bug #805440 - CVE-2012-1573 gnutls: TLS record handling issue [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805440
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