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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200901-10">
+ <title>GnuTLS: Certificate validation error</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A certificate validation error in GnuTLS might allow for spoofing attacks.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">gnutls</product>
+ <announced>2009-01-14</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2009-01-14</revised>
+ <bug>245850</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-libs/gnutls" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.4.1-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.1-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ GnuTLS is an open-source implementation of TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Martin von Gagern reported that the _gnutls_x509_verify_certificate()
+ function in lib/x509/verify.c trusts certificate chains in which the
+ last certificate is an arbitrary trusted, self-signed certificate.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability and spoof arbitrary
+ names to conduct Man-In-The-Middle attacks and intercept sensitive
+ information.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All GnuTLS users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-libs/gnutls-2.4.1-r2"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4989">CVE-2008-4989</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-11-30T19:06:26Z">
+ keytoaster
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-01-10T23:37:58Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-01-10T23:38:09Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>