[SECURITY] gnutls

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Mon Sep 26 19:13:00 GMT 2016


On 2016-09-26 02:00, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Dr. Volker,
>
> Two security issues have been reported in GnuTLS:
>
> https://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2016-2
> https://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2016-3
>
> At this point, I think the best way to proceed would be to:
>
> 1) release 3.3.24 with the patch for the latter, then;
> 2) update to 3.4.15, which involves an ABI break.

nettle is also overdue for an update (it's also blocking an update to 
filezilla); getting that in after 3.3.24 and prior to 3.4 would be best.

-- 
Yaakov



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