ports/129572: [patch] security/gnutls: remove functional regression caused by fix for CVE-2008-4989

Eygene Ryabinkin rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru
Wed Dec 24 14:52:21 UTC 2008


Gentlemen!

Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:10:01PM +0000, FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129572
> 
> >Category:       ports
> >Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
> >Synopsis:       [patch] security/gnutls: remove functional regression caused by fix for CVE-2008-4989
> >Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 11 14:10:01 UTC 2008

May I remind you about this PR -- the regression is better to be fixed:
Verisign is the popular X.509 vendor and their old certificates are
still used.  GnuTLS won't be able to verify them without this patch.

Thanks!
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