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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2540-1
March 23, 2015
gnutls26, gnutls28 vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
– Ubuntu 14.10
– Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
– Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
– Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Summary:
Several security issues were fixed in GnuTLS.
Software Description:
– gnutls28: GNU TLS library
– gnutls26: GNU TLS library
Details:
It was discovered that GnuTLS did not perform date and time checks on
CA certificates, contrary to expectations. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-8155)
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly verified that
signature algorithms matched. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to downgrade to a disallowed algorithm. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-0282)
It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly verified certificate algorithms.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to downgrade to a
disallowed algorithm. (CVE-2015-0294)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 14.10:
libgnutls-deb0-28 3.2.16-1ubuntu2.2
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libgnutls26 2.12.23-12ubuntu2.2
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libgnutls26 2.12.14-5ubuntu3.9
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
libgnutls26 2.8.5-2ubuntu0.7
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2540-1
CVE-2014-8155, CVE-2015-0282, CVE-2015-0294
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnutls28/3.2.16-1ubuntu2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnutls26/2.12.23-12ubuntu2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnutls26/2.12.14-5ubuntu3.9
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnutls26/2.8.5-2ubuntu0.7
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