DSA-2944-1 gnutls26 -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2944-1 gnutls26 -- security update

Date Reported:

01 Jun 2014

Affected Packages:

gnutls26

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3466.

More information:

Joonas Kuorilehto discovered that GNU TLS performed insufficient validation of session IDs during TLS/SSL handshakes. A malicious server could use this to execute arbitrary code or perform denial of service.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.12.20-8+deb7u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.12.23-16.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnutls26 packages.