Fixing "lucky 13" CVE-2013-0169 in gnutls28

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Sun Feb 10 14:28:41 UTC 2013


On Thu, Feb  7, 2013 at 11:54:52 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> sadly CVE-2013-0169 also (see 699891) applies to gnutls28.
> I have just uploaded gnutls28_3.0.22-3 to unstable, pretty much with
> the same set of fixes as gnutls26 2.12.20-4 to unstable. I am not
> sure how you would prefer to have this fixed in testing.
> 
> Could 3.0.22-3 propagate to testing? The version in testing is two
> upstream versions older (3.0.20-3), therefore the diff will be pretty
> big. Or is a tpu upload necessary?
> 
I don't think 3.0.22-3 is suitable at this stage...

> PS: My first idea was to simply pull gnutls28, providing guile-gnutls
> and gnutls-bin from gnutls26 again. However there is a reverse
> dependency (pan) on libgnutls28 in testing nowaday. Pan is not
> distributable currently http://bugs.debian.org/699892
> but that might still be fixed in time for the release.

What would be involved in switching pan back to gnutls26?

Cheers,
Julien
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