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ELSA-2013-0883 Important: Oracle Linux gnutls security update

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ELSA-2013-0883 Important: Oracle Linux gnutls security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/08/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/31/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The _gnutls_ciphertext2compressed function in lib/gnutls_cipher.c in GnuTLS 2.12.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and crash) via a crafted padding length. NOTE: this might be due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-0169.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-gnutls
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-gnutls-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-gnutls-guile
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-gnutls-utils

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