Bug#888426: certtool has year 2k38 problem, giving problems for scripts that generate 20 year certs today

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Sun Feb 18 20:01:11 UTC 2018


No good solution to that, but given that we depend on glibc's time_t, we
are tied to it solving the issue. The issue is tracked at:
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/370

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 2:12 PM Andreas Metzler <ametzler at bebt.de> wrote:

> Control: found -1 3.6.2-1
> Control: found -1 3.5.18-1
>
> On 2018-01-25 Floris Bos <bos at je-eigen-domein.nl> wrote:
> > Package: gnutls-bin
> > Version: 3.5.8-5+deb9u3
> > Severity: important
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Seems certtool (at least the version shipped with Debian Stretch) has a
> year
> > 2038 problem on 32-bit architectures.
> [...]
>
> Confirmed on i386/sid and experimental.
>
>
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