[Help-gnutls] GnuTLS 2.2.5 - Brown paper bag release

Mon May 19 22:54:43 CEST 2008

We are embarrassed to announce a new stable GnuTLS release: Version 2.2.5.

This release fixes a flaw in the patch for one of the security problems
fixed by version 2.2.4.  The updated advisory is included below.  As
always, further updates will be posted on:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html

I'd also like to take the opportunity to correct another mistake made
the announcement for v2.2.4: please send security analysis to
gnutls-devel at gnu.org and not to any other address.

GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard network
security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS), for use by network
applications.  GnuTLS is developed for GNU/Linux, but works on many
Unix-like systems and comes with a binary installer for Windows.

The core GnuTLS library is distribute under the terms of the GNU Lesser
General Public License version 2.1 (or later).  The "extra" GnuTLS
libraries -- which contains OpenPGP and TLS/IA support, LZO compression,
the OpenSSL compatibility library -- and the self tests and command line
tools are distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3.0
(or later).  The manual is distributed under the GNU Free Documentation
License version 1.2 (or later).

The project page of the library is available at:
  http://www.gnutls.org/
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/
  http://josefsson.org/gnutls/

What's New
==========

* Version 2.2.5 (released 2008-05-19)

** Fix flaw in fix for GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-3.
The flaw would result in incorrectly terminated sessions with the
error "Decryption has failed" when the server sends a small packet
(typically when the session is closed).  Reported by Andreas Metzler
<ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> in
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/2807>.

** API and ABI modifications:
No changes since last version.

Getting the Software
====================

GnuTLS may be downloaded from one of the mirror sites or direct from
<ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/>.  The list of mirrors can be found at
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/download.html>.

Here are the BZIP2 compressed sources (4.8MB):

  ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-2.2.5.tar.bz2
  http://josefsson.org/gnutls/releases/gnutls-2.2.5.tar.bz2

Here are OpenPGP detached signatures signed using key 0xB565716F:

  ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-2.2.5.tar.bz2.sig
  http://josefsson.org/gnutls/releases/gnutls-2.2.5.tar.bz2.sig

Note, that we don't distribute gzip compressed tarballs.

In order to check that the version of GnuTLS which you are going to
install is an original and unmodified one, you should verify the OpenPGP
signature.  You can use the command

     gpg --verify gnutls-2.2.5.tar.bz2.sig

This checks whether the signature file matches the source file.  You
should see a message indicating that the signature is good and made by
that signing key.  Make sure that you have the right key, either by
checking the fingerprint of that key with other sources or by checking
that the key has been signed by a trustworthy other key.  The signing
key can be identified with the following information:

pub   1280R/B565716F 2002-05-05 [expires: 2008-06-30]
      Key fingerprint = 0424 D4EE 81A0 E3D1 19C6  F835 EDA2 1E94 B565 716F
uid                  Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>
uid                  Simon Josefsson <jas at extundo.com>

The key is available from:
  http://josefsson.org/key.txt
  dns:b565716f.josefsson.org?TYPE=CERT

Alternatively, after successfully verifying the OpenPGP signature of
this announcement, you could verify that the files match the following
checksum values.  The values are for SHA-1 and SHA-224 respectively:

7620d092c790f0a5ac5486c3563786ca8777083d  gnutls-2.2.5.tar.bz2

d1cee353902a404a4b02fd0da981e8164c8b60356917abfc781b066c  gnutls-2.2.5.tar.bz2

Documentation
=============

The manual is available online at:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/documentation.html

In particular the following formats are available:

 HTML: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/index.html
 PDF: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/gnutls.pdf

For developers there is a GnuTLS API reference manual formatted using
the GTK-DOC tools:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/reference/gnutls-gnutls.html

Community
=========

If you need help to use GnuTLS, or want to help others, you are invited
to join our help-gnutls mailing list, see:
<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls>.

If you wish to participate in the development of GnuTLS, you are invited
to join our gnutls-devel mailing list, see:
<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnutls-devel>.

Windows installer
=================

GnuTLS has been ported to the Windows operating system, and a binary
installer is available.  The installer contains DLLs for application
development, manuals, examples, and source code.  The installer consists
of libgpg-error 1.6, libgcrypt 1.4.1, libtasn1 1.4, and GnuTLS 2.2.5.

For more information about GnuTLS for Windows:
  http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/

The Windows binary installer and OpenPGP signature:
  http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.2.5.exe (13MB)
  http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.2.5.exe.sig

A ZIP file with the installed tree of binaries:
  http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.2.5.zip (4.6MB)
  http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.2.5.zip.sig

The checksum values for SHA-1 and SHA-224 are:

02a84f3844b9376f65edfbb6f6cc377a239a6264  gnutls-2.2.5.exe
1bff90ec17ad99bbf369d65719a1f25fa6d16cbe  gnutls-2.2.5.zip

0a1b1687d7b542e3c41abaa9c321946db32487f936b45ec7bdb0d563  gnutls-2.2.5.exe
8c07ceed8183efb561f99d393bcac6faf669a9c3936df5d5397686fe  gnutls-2.2.5.zip

Internationalization
====================

GnuTLS messages have been translated into Dutch, German, Malay, Polish
and Swedish.  We welcome the addition of more translations.

Support
=======

Improving GnuTLS is costly, but you can help!  We are looking for
organizations that find GnuTLS useful and wish to contribute back.  You
can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, or donate money
or equipment.

Commercial support contracts for GnuTLS are available, and they help
finance continued maintenance.  Simon Josefsson Datakonsult, a Stockholm
based privately held company, is currently funding GnuTLS maintenance.
We are always looking for interesting development projects.  See
http://josefsson.org/ for more details.

The GnuTLS service directory is available at:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/commercial.html

Happy Hacking,
Simon
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