metadata/glsa/glsa-200505-04.xml

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<glsa id="200505-04">
  <title>GnuTLS: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    The GnuTLS library is vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">GnuTLS</product>
  <announced>May 09, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 09, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>90726</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-libs/gnutls" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.2.3</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">1.0.25</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.2.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    GnuTLS is a free TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 implementation for the GNU
    project.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    A vulnerability has been discovered in the record packet parsing
    in the GnuTLS library. Additionally, a flaw was also found in the RSA
    key export functionality.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability and cause a
    Denial of Service to any application that utilizes the GnuTLS library.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All GnuTLS users should remove the existing installation and
    upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --unmerge gnutls
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose net-libs/gnutls</code>
    <p>
    Due to small API changes with the previous version, please do
    the following to ensure your applications are using the latest GnuTLS
    that you just emerged.
    </p>
    <code>
    # revdep-rebuild --soname-regexp libgnutls.so.1[0-1]</code>
    <p>
    Previously exported RSA keys can be fixed by executing the
    following command on the key files:
    </p>
    <code>
    # certtool -k infile outfile</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2005-April/000858.html">GnuTLS Announcement</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1431">CAN-2005-1431</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:20:03 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:44:07 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:35:11 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
</glsa>