Bug 1415682

Summary: Changes introduced by rebase to 2.12.23 break API and ABI compatibility for some libraries
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Alicja Kario <hkario>
Component: gnutlsAssignee: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmavrogi>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Alicja Kario <hkario>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact: Mirek Jahoda <mjahoda>
Priority: high    
Version: 6.8CC: bressers, mjahoda, salmy
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Rebase
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Fixed In Version: gnutls-2.12.23-20.el6 Doc Type: Deprecated Functionality
Doc Text:
*GnuTLS* no longer provides cryptographic back-end replacement APIs The functions implementing cryptographic back-end replacement are considered obsolete and act as no-operation functions now. The following functions exported in the `gnutls/crypto.h` file are affected: * gnutls_crypto_single_cipher_register2 * gnutls_crypto_single_mac_register2 * gnutls_crypto_single_digest_register2 * gnutls_crypto_cipher_register2 * gnutls_crypto_mac_register2 * gnutls_crypto_digest_register2 * gnutls_crypto_rnd_register2 * gnutls_crypto_pk_register2 * gnutls_crypto_bigint_register2
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Last Closed: 2017-03-21 09:05:32 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Alicja Kario 2017-01-23 12:32:32 UTC
Description of problem:
GNUTLS_1_6 symbols were removed from libgnutlsxx
gnutls_pk_params_st changed size

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnutls-2.12.23-17.el6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. inspect header files, readelf so's, compare between versions

Actual results:
differences causing ABI incompatibility

Expected results:
no ABI breakage

Additional info:

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-21 09:05:32 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0574.html