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CVE Request - GnuTLS corrects flaw in certificate verification (3.1.x/3.2.x)


From: "mancha" <mancha1 () hush com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:30:30 +0000

GnuTLS has just released versions 3.1.21 and 3.2.11 to address
an issue with the handling of v1 CA certificates. According to
the developer in GnuTLS advisory GNUTLS-SA-2014-1: "This issue
can be exploited if there are trusted CAs that issue X.509
version 1 certificates." [1]

[1] http://gnutls.org/security.html

Upstream fix:
https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/b1abfe3d18

Unless already assigned, would you please allocate a CVE for
this issue?

Thank you.

--mancha


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