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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2018-07-16 08:27:54 +0200
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2018-07-16 08:28:16 +0200
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Signed-off-by: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
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Copyright (C) 2013-2017 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
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-* Version 3.6.3 (unreleased)
+* Version 3.6.3 (released 2018-07-16)
** libgnutls: Introduced support for draft-ietf-tls-tls13-28. It includes version
negotiation, post handshake authentication, length hiding, multiple OCSP support,
@@ -53,9 +53,8 @@ See the end for copying conditions.
** Improved counter-measures for TLS CBC record padding. Kenny Paterson, Eyal Ronen
and Adi Shamir reported that the existing counter-measures had certain issues and
- were insufficient when the attacker could access the cache and perform chosen-
- plaintext. This affected the legacy CBC ciphersuites when the encrypt-then-MAC
- TLS feature was not supported by the peer.
+ were insufficient when the attacker has additional access to the CPU cache and
+ performs a chosen-plaintext attack. This affected the legacy CBC ciphersuites. [CVSS: medium]
** Introduced the %FORCE_ETM priority string option. This option prevents the negotiation
of legacy CBC ciphersuites unless encrypt-then-mac is negotiated.