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From: Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>
To: slackware-security@slackware.com
Subject: [slackware-security] gnutls (SSA:2013-242-01)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:46:14 -0700 (PDT)
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[slackware-security]  gnutls (SSA:2013-242-01)

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix a
security issue.


Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog:
+--------------------------+
patches/packages/gnutls-3.0.26-i486-1_slack14.0.txz:  Upgraded.
  This update prevents a side-channel attack which may allow remote attackers
  to conduct distinguishing attacks and plaintext recovery attacks using
  statistical analysis of timing data for crafted packets.
  For more information, see:
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1619
  (* Security fix *)
+--------------------------+


Where to find the new packages:
+-----------------------------+

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project!  :-)

Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/gnutls-3.0.26-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/gnutls-3.0.26-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/gnutls-3.0.26-i486-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/gnutls-3.0.26-x86_64-1.txz


MD5 signatures:
+-------------+

Slackware 14.0 package:
b4871658060b56ee03e2d04a9d5b96e4  gnutls-3.0.26-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
976ca3bf65238d75a027cb2203cf9612  gnutls-3.0.26-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
16e99934d07c8aab09016e0cb2c6cfa1  n/gnutls-3.0.26-i486-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
dffa995fb8369f1c7afd7342dd31697e  n/gnutls-3.0.26-x86_64-1.txz


Installation instructions:
+------------------------+

Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg gnutls-3.0.26-i486-1_slack14.0.txz


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Slackware Linux Security Team
http://slackware.com/gpg-key
security@slackware.com

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