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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes GnuTLS Denial of Service Issue
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Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes GnuTLS Denial of Service Issue
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0494
CVE ID : CVE-2005-1431
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-05-09
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Gentoo has released a security patch to correct a vulnerability identified in GnuTLS. This flaw resides in the record packet parsing and the RSA key export functionalities of GnuTLS, which may be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) to any application that utilizes the GnuTLS library.
Affected Products
net-libs/gnutls versions prior to 1.2.3
Solution
Remove the existing installation and upgrade to the latest version :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --unmerge gnutls
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose net-libs/gnutls
# revdep-rebuild --soname-regexp libgnutls.so.1[0-1]
# certtool -k infile outfile
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0494
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-04.xml
ChangeLog
2005-05-09 : Initial release
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