MGASA-2014-0117

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    MGASA-2014-0117

    Published: 3 Mar 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-0092

    Summary: Updated gnutls packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: It was discovered that GnuTLS did not correctly handle certain errors that could occur during the verification of an X.509 certificate, causing it to incorrectly report a successful verification. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate that could be accepted by GnuTLS as valid for a site chosen by the attacker (CVE-2014-0092).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0117.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12922, http://gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2014-2, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0246.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gnutls

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/gnutls?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.1.16-1.2.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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