OVMSA-2017-0054

OVMSA-2017-0054 - gnutls security update

Type:SECURITY
Severity:MODERATE
Release Date:2017-03-29

Description


[2.12.23-21]
- Upgraded to 2.12.23 to incorporate multiple TLS 1.2 fixes
(#1326389, #1326073, #1323215, #1320982, #1328205, #1321112)
- Modified gnutls-serv to accept --sni-hostname (#1333521)
- Modified gnutls-serv to always reply with an alert message (#1327656)
- Removed support for DSA2 as it causes interoperability issues (#1321112)
- Allow sending and receiving certificates which were not in the
signature algorithms extension (#1328205)
- Removed support for EXPORT ciphersuites (#1337460)
- Raised the minimum acceptable DH size to 1024 (#1335924)
- Restricted the number of alert that can be received during handshake (#1388730)
- Added fixes for OpenPGP parsing issues (CVE-2017-5337, CVE-2017-5336, CVE-2017-5335)
- The exposed (but internal) crypto back-end registration API is deprecated and no
longer functional. The ABI is kept compatible (#1415682)


Related CVEs


CVE-2016-8610
CVE-2017-5335
CVE-2017-5337
CVE-2017-5336

Updated Packages


Release/ArchitectureFilenameMD5sumSuperseded By Advisory
Oracle VM 3.3 (x86_64) gnutls-2.12.23-21.el6.src.rpm85c951d58089a465891aaed133fe721a-
gnutls-2.12.23-21.el6.x86_64.rpmaea4f2e09e91adf4379c4e32fcb3ed5d-
Oracle VM 3.4 (x86_64) gnutls-2.12.23-21.el6.src.rpm85c951d58089a465891aaed133fe721a-
gnutls-2.12.23-21.el6.x86_64.rpmaea4f2e09e91adf4379c4e32fcb3ed5d-
gnutls-utils-2.12.23-21.el6.x86_64.rpm6d75114892a134fda1094e05c3bada3f-



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