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:
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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.