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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2866-1 (gnutls26 - certificate verification flaw)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Suman Jana reported that GnuTLS, deviating from the documented behavior, considers a version 1 intermediate certificate as a CA certificate by default. The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem as X.509 version 1 trusted CA certificates are not allowed by default.
Affected Software
Affected Software
gnutls26 on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.12.20-8. For the testing distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.12.23-12. We recommend that you upgrade your gnutls26 packages.