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authorSimon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>2006-08-11 23:03:06 +0000
committerSimon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>2006-08-11 23:03:06 +0000
commite8681c22588bd69ad0ed715553c67600576d2a81 (patch)
treede6833d78a8a8295a0ea1f53336c3c4d04eba2e5
parent50d8fbbbbd137e0bbf00fd11b28607b13c741ab5 (diff)
downloadgnutls-e8681c22588bd69ad0ed715553c67600576d2a81.tar.gz
Fix.
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@@ -9,8 +9,12 @@ See the end for copying conditions.
This can happen if you call gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2 and have
a certain mix of local CA certificates and the peer send special
certificates, that together trigger certain behaviour. It is not
-known whether the crash can be triggered without the special local CA
-certificate. Reported by satyakumar <satyam_kkd@hyd.hellosoft.com>.
+known at this point whether the crash can be triggered without the
+special local CA certificate, and thus turn this into a remote crash
+of clients that verify server certificates when they talk to a server
+with the special server certificate. See GNUTLS-SA-2006-2 on
+http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html for more up to date
+information. Reported by satyakumar <satyam_kkd@hyd.hellosoft.com>.
** Change SRP and Cert-Type extensions to match IANA registry.