Bug#926412: unblock: gnutls28/3.6.7-2

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Thu Apr 4 18:41:44 BST 2019


Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

Please unblock package gnutls28.

This is a upstream bugfix release featuring two security fixes

    + Fixes a memory corruption (double free) vulnerability in the
      certificate verification API.
      https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/694 CVE-2019-3829
      GNUTLS-SA-2019-03-27
    + Fixes an invalid pointer access via malformed TLS1.3 async messages;
      https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/704 CVE-2019-3836
      GNUTLS-SA-2019-03-27

One of these is fixed by a hardening measure (gnutls_free() will
automatically set the free'd pointer to NULL.) It also unbreaks
vlc (#922879) and has some TLS1.3 related changes.

The straight debdiff is huge, because of a) usual release updates of
autogenerated files and b) because it includes a global
's/http:/https:/'. Stripped down debdiff is attached.

unblock gnutls28/3.6.7-2

cu Andreas
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