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Date:      Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:41:27 +0400
From:      Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: security/gnutls update when...
Message-ID:  <20120324194126.GA1296@kloomba>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1sZRYYB0ZGCp7J6yJUMyXtmjsNKnNPYn9O2_XorMRi3cQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20120324172937.GA43822@DataIX.net> <CAN6yY1sZRYYB0ZGCp7J6yJUMyXtmjsNKnNPYn9O2_XorMRi3cQ@mail.gmail.com>

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  Kevin Oberman wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Jason Hellenthal
> <jhellenthal@dataix.net> 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 =3D;
>=20
> Note that one of these problems is with libtasn1 and is not a gnutls
> problems at all. So updating libtasn1actually fixes this one, although
> the other does require an update to a version of gnutls that has yet
> to be ported.

There's a vulnerability in gnutls also:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html

Mu Dynamics released an advisory for both libtasn1 and gnutls:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/5959

gnutls one is tagged MU-201202-01 and libtasn1 on is MU-201202-02.

Roman Bogorodskiy

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