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TITLE:
SUSE update for gnutls

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49203

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http://secunia.com/advisories/49203/
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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=49203

RELEASE DATE:
2012-05-16

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DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for gnutls. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to
potentially cause a DoS (Denial of Service) in an application using
the library and potentially compromise an application using the
library.

For more information:
SA48488

1) The vulnerability is caused due to a double-free error within the
libgnutls library and can be exploited to cause a crash via a
specially crafted certificate list.

SOLUTION:
Apply update packages via the zypper package manager.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits Remi Gacogne.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
openSUSE-SU-2012:0620-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-05/msg00021.html

GnuTLS:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/5866

OTHER REFERENCES:
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