Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mandriva, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security checks. This issue is caused by an error in GnuTLS. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-3086

Affected Products

Mandriva Linux 2008.0
Mandriva Linux 2008.1
Mandriva Linux 2009.0

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
60f4f2fefdfd3684f3b005e62cb93ba1 2008.0/i586/gnutls-2.0.0-2.3mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
ae53d66478ff96540e2e7d5cfaadfe17 2008.0/i586/libgnutls13-2.0.0-2.3mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
a8d4971ad3262a9334012c41edaa7918 2008.0/i586/libgnutls-devel-2.0.0-2.3mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
14ac81812bcc8f7d9922780e89fed88d 2008.0/SRPMS/gnutls-2.0.0-2.3mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
e2dfda8e991495ee2c7e6bbf3ccdb051 2008.0/x86_64/gnutls-2.0.0-2.3mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
db3b0edf267cdac277f47ecb9c126add 2008.0/x86_64/lib64gnutls13-2.0.0-2.3mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
60944c583e7956590b0de0e12ecf5610 2008.0/x86_64/lib64gnutls-devel-2.0.0-2.3mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
14ac81812bcc8f7d9922780e89fed88d 2008.0/SRPMS/gnutls-2.0.0-2.3mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1:
0e2b0eac5b884160d77fa03dfd2e629c 2008.1/i586/gnutls-2.3.0-2.3mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
1c9389e64590c22c6b05bacc9923a81b 2008.1/i586/libgnutls26-2.3.0-2.3mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
5500ee8c7cd28735b0f90d9224e244bd 2008.1/i586/libgnutls-devel-2.3.0-2.3mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
77d89efe54acc14a069c297de7939258 2008.1/SRPMS/gnutls-2.3.0-2.3mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64:
9b99d7387db8864d84d9aae48a84cea8 2008.1/x86_64/gnutls-2.3.0-2.3mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
4085618c35d0d6b6c7f8d843701028f5 2008.1/x86_64/lib64gnutls26-2.3.0-2.3mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
83f17e48ec2e5c485141d392530df33d 2008.1/x86_64/lib64gnutls-devel-2.3.0-2.3mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
77d89efe54acc14a069c297de7939258 2008.1/SRPMS/gnutls-2.3.0-2.3mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2009.0:
9ed865d219cdde7d45b648341d28c13c 2009.0/i586/gnutls-2.4.1-2.2mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
0add63a12831dbd02b27487a9212fb3b 2009.0/i586/libgnutls26-2.4.1-2.2mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
bd66e5cc9104b5903e6940f09a323002 2009.0/i586/libgnutls-devel-2.4.1-2.2mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
8deee0f243a9af49c55837c04c9ed46d 2009.0/SRPMS/gnutls-2.4.1-2.2mdv2009.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2009.0/X86_64:
3913ed2769a85f34ae08dffac3798f28 2009.0/x86_64/gnutls-2.4.1-2.2mdv2009.0.x86_64.rpm
0db8cbae6e1d5a68a9b81478b1ce5833 2009.0/x86_64/lib64gnutls26-2.4.1-2.2mdv2009.0.x86_64.rpm
ba3e74e7af95c837ace781d1995c5637 2009.0/x86_64/lib64gnutls-devel-2.4.1-2.2mdv2009.0.x86_64.rpm
8deee0f243a9af49c55837c04c9ed46d 2009.0/SRPMS/gnutls-2.4.1-2.2mdv2009.0.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3131
http://lists.mandriva.com/security-announce/2008-11/msg00006.php
http://lists.mandriva.com/security-announce/2008-11/msg00013.php

ChangeLog

2008-11-13 : Initial release
2008-11-19 : Updated Solution

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