[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: gnutls-2.0.4-3.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-4259
2008-05-21 07:08:50
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Name        : gnutls
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 2.0.4
Release     : 3.fc9
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:

Fixes critical security issue GNUTLS-SA-2008-1 described here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00060.html    All
applications and system services which utilize gnutls library must be restarted
for the updates to take effect.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May 20 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 2.0.4-3
- fix three security issues in gnutls handshake - GNUTLS-SA-2008-1
  (#447461, #447462, #447463)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #447462 - CVE-2008-1949 GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-2 GnuTLS null-pointer dereference
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447462
  [ 2 ] Bug #447463 - CVE-2008-1950 GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-3 GnuTLS memory overread flaw
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447463
  [ 3 ] Bug #447461 - CVE-2008-1948 GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-1 GnuTLS buffer overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447461
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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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