libgnutls30 update from 3.5 to 3.6

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2020-06-13 Alfredo Fabeiro <ajf243 at ameritech.net> wrote:
> Dear developers;


> I am running Linux version 4.9.0-11-686-pae (Debian Stretch 6.3.0-18+deb9u1)
> on a old system and I've using Evolution for long time without any problem,
> the installed version is 3.22.6 and after Apr/21 I was not able to receive
> or send emails.


> I get this error"

> ?????? "Error performing TLS handshake: Internal error in memory allocation."

> Seems to be the problem has been identify:

> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1876286

> And the solution to the problem is to update is to update my library for
> gnuTLS from 3.5 to 3.6

> The problem is that I don't know how to force that library to update. I
> tried with Synaptic to no avail.

> Could you help me here and give some directions or advice on how to do that.
> Or maybe you guys know that an update is imminent so it is a matter of just
> waiting for few days...

Hello Alfredo,

I am planning to make a final update of gnutls28 for Debian 09 (stretch)
including a fix for this bug. But this will probably take a couple of
weeks. (I can give you a heads up when I have got packages ready for
testing).

However I would strongly suggest to do a full system upgrade to Debian
10 (buster). Debian 9 is very soon going to be end of life and this
specific issue will not affect you in Debian 10, since the issue does
not affect TLS 1.3 connections, which buster's gnutls supports.

cu Andreas

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