Synopsis: Critical: gnutls security update
Issue date: 2008-05-20
CVE Names: CVE-2008-1948 CVE-2008-1949 CVE-2008-1950
Flaws were found in the way GnuTLS handles malicious client connections. A
malicious remote client could send a specially crafted request to a service
using GnuTLS that could cause the service to crash. (CVE-2008-1948,
CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
At this time we have not seen any code that is using this exploit. But in
Scientific Linux 5 there are some applications, such as CUPS, that would be
directly vulnerable if/when there is an exploit. Because of the potential
threat we are labeling this critical.
SL 5.x
SRPMS:
gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_1.src.rpm
i386:
gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_1.i386.rpm
gnutls-devel-1.4.1-3.el5_1.i386.rpm
gnutls-utils-1.4.1-3.el5_1.i386.rpm
x86_64:
gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_1.i386.rpm
gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
gnutls-devel-1.4.1-3.el5_1.i386.rpm
gnutls-devel-1.4.1-3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
gnutls-utils-1.4.1-3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson