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GnuTLS X.509 Certificate Chain Validation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA32619
Release Date: 2008-11-10
Last Update: 2008-11-13
Popularity: 2,702 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Spoofing
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:GnuTLS 2.x

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Solution:
Update to version 2.6.2.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Martin von Gagern.

Changelog:
2008-11-13: Changed the fixed version to 2.6.2 in the "Solution" section due to version 2.6.1 introducing a crash when processing self-signed certificates. Added vendor link to the "Original Advisory" section.

Original Advisory:
GNUTLS-SA-2008-3:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3215

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3248

Change Page:
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