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Date:      Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:52:45 -0400
From:      Ryan Steinmetz <zi@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, pav@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org, novel@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: security/gnutls update when...
Message-ID:  <20120324175245.GA78438@fast.rit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20120324172937.GA43822@DataIX.net>
References:  <20120324172937.GA43822@DataIX.net>

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On (03/24/12 13:29), Jason Hellenthal wrote:
> 
> Apparently this port has fell two versions behind. Is there anything
> that is going to happen to update it to the current stable version ?
> 
> 
> These advisories have been out for a week now. And the current version
> is 2.12.18.
> 
> 
> Database created: Sat Mar 24 13:15:03 EDT 2012
> Affected package: gnutls-2.12.16
> Type of problem: libtasn1 -- ASN.1 length decoding vulnerability.
> Reference:
> http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/2e7e9072-73a0-11e1-a883-001cc0a36e12.html
> 
> Affected package: gnutls-2.12.16
> Type of problem: gnutls -- possible overflow/Denial of service
> vulnerabilities.
> Reference:
> http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/aecee357-739e-11e1-a883-001cc0a36e12.html
> 
> 2 problem(s) in your installed packages found.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> ;s =;

Jason,

There is an update in progress (ports/166307).  There is a shared
library version bump that is part of the gnutls update and this requires
a little extra scrutiny.  This, combined with the upcoming 8.3 RELEASE
is what is contributing to the delay.


Hope this helps,
-r


-- 
Ryan Steinmetz
PGP: EF36 D45A 5CA9 28B1 A550  18CD A43C D111 7AD7 FAF2



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