SECURITY: gnutls

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Oct 18 07:53:00 GMT 2011


On Oct 17 20:45, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> On 16 October 2011 14:49, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > Dr. Volker Zell,
> >
> > gnutls 2.8.6 is susceptible to CVE-2009-3555.  This has been fixed since
> > 2.10.0, but the current stable releases are 2.12.11 (ABI-compatible with
> > 2.8.6) and 3.0.4 (which breaks ABI compatibility).  For now, please
> > release 2.12.11 ASAP for all the apps currently dependent on
> > libgnutls26.
> 
> Is Dr. Volker Zell still active?  The last post I can find from him
> was from June of last year:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-06/msg00009.html

I had a short mail exchange with Volker in August.  He had some private
problems to deal with.  He wrote he would catch up at one point.

Volker, I CCed you so you can chime in, ok?


Thanks,
Corinna

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