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FreeBSD Ports: gnutls
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
The following package is affected: gnutls CVE-2008-4989 The _gnutls_x509_verify_certificate function in lib/x509/verify.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.6.1 trusts certificate chains in which the last certificate is an arbitrary trusted, self-signed certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to insert a spoofed certificate for any Distinguished Name (DN).
Solution
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-11/msg00017.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/45298931-b3bf-11dd-80f8-001cc0377035.html