[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: gnutls-2.12.23-2.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-9799
2013-06-01 01:39:47
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Name        : gnutls
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.12.23
Release     : 2.fc17
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:

Important security update - possible DoS of both client and server.

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ChangeLog:

* Fri May 31 2013 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.23-2
- fix CVE-2013-2116 - regression from the TLS-CBC timing attack fix (#966754)
* Thu Feb 21 2013 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.23-1
- new upstream version fixing TLS-CBC timing attack
* Tue Jan  8 2013 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.22-1
- new upstream version
* Wed Nov 28 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.21-2
- use RSA bit sizes supported by libgcrypt in FIPS mode for security
  levels (#879643)
* Fri Nov  9 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.21-1
- new upstream version
* Thu Nov  1 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.20-4
- negotiate only FIPS approved algorithms in the FIPS mode (#871826)
* Wed Aug  8 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.20-3
- fix the gnutls-cli-debug manpage - patch by Peter Schiffer
* Thu Jul 19 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.12.20-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Jun 18 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.20-1
- new upstream version
* Fri May 18 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.19-1
- new upstream version
* Thu Mar 29 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.12.18-1
- new upstream version
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #966754 - CVE-2013-2116 gnutls: out of bounds read in _gnutls_ciphertext2compressed (GNUTLS-SA-2013-2)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=966754
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