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[DSA1182] DSA-1182-1 gnutls11

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-1182-1 gnutls11

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Daniel Bleichenbacher discovered a flaw in GNU TLS cryptographic package
that could permit a possible hacker to generate a forged signature that GNU TLS
will accept as valid.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.16-13.2sarge2.
The unstable distribution (sid) does no longer contain gnutls11, for
gnutls13 this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.4-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your GNU TLS package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1182
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2006 Michel Arboi

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