Buffer overflow in the gnutls_session_get_data function in lib/gnutls_session.c in GnuTLS 2.12.x before 2.12.14 and 3.x before 3.0.7, when used on a client that performs nonstandard session resumption, allows remote TLS servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large SessionTicket.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - gnutls: incorrect handling of V1 intermediate certificates (CVE-2009-5138)

  - gnutls: incorrect error handling in certificate verification (GNUTLS-SA-2014-2) (CVE-2014-0092)

  - Buffer overflow in the gnutls_session_get_data function in lib/gnutls_session.c in GnuTLS 2.12.x before     2.12.14 and 3.x before 3.0.7, when used on a client that performs nonstandard session resumption, allows     remote TLS servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large SessionTicket.
    (CVE-2011-4128)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote VMware ESX / ESXi host is missing a security-related patch.
It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including remote code execution vulnerabilities, in several third-party libraries :

  - Apache Struts
  - glibc
  - GnuTLS
  - JRE
  - kernel
  - libxml2
  - OpenSSL
  - Perl
  - popt and rpm

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

  - Buffer overflow in the gnutls_session_get_data function     in lib/gnutls_session.c in GnuTLS 2.12.x before 2.12.14     and 3.x before 3.0.7, when used on a client that     performs nonstandard session resumption, allows remote     TLS servers to cause a denial of service (application     crash) via a large SessionTicket. (CVE-2011-4128)

An updated rhev-hypervisor5 package that fixes three security issues and one bug is now available.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The rhev-hypervisor5 package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is a dedicated Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. It includes everything necessary to run and manage virtual machines: A subset of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating environment and the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Agent.

Note: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is only available for the Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures with virtualization extensions.

A flaw was found in the way libtasn1 decoded DER data. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted X.509 certificate that, when parsed by an application that uses GnuTLS, could cause the application to crash. (CVE-2012-1569)

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS decrypted malformed TLS records.
This could cause a TLS/SSL client or server to crash when processing a specially crafted TLS record from a remote TLS/SSL connection peer.
(CVE-2012-1573)

An integer overflow flaw was found in the implementation of the printf functions family. This could allow an attacker to bypass FORTIFY_SOURCE protections and execute arbitrary code using a format string flaw in an application, even though these protections are expected to limit the impact of such flaws to an application abort.
(CVE-2012-0864)

Red Hat would like to thank Matthew Hall of Mu Dynamics for reporting CVE-2012-1569 and CVE-2012-1573.

This updated package provides updated components that include fixes for various security issues. These issues have no security impact on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor itself, however. The security fixes included in this update address the following CVE numbers :

CVE-2011-4128 (gnutls issue)

CVE-2012-1583 (kernel issue)

CVE-2011-3045 (libpng issue)

CVE-2012-0884 and CVE-2012-1165 (openssl issues)

Further information on the changes made to the package is available on the relevant errata :

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0398.html

Users of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these issues.

Large server tickets could crash gnutls clients. CVE-2011-4128 has been assigned to this issue.

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and 13.37 to fix security issues.

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS decrypted malformed TLS records.
This could cause a TLS/SSL client or server to crash when processing a specially crafted TLS record from a remote TLS/SSL connection peer.
(CVE-2012-1573)

A boundary error was found in the gnutls_session_get_data() function.
A malicious TLS/SSL server could use this flaw to crash a TLS/SSL client or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the client, if the client passed a fixed-sized buffer to gnutls_session_get_data() before checking the real size of the session data provided by the server.
(CVE-2011-4128)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2012:0429 :

Updated gnutls packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The GnuTLS library provides support for cryptographic algorithms and for protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS).

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS decrypted malformed TLS records.
This could cause a TLS/SSL client or server to crash when processing a specially crafted TLS record from a remote TLS/SSL connection peer.
(CVE-2012-1573)

A boundary error was found in the gnutls_session_get_data() function.
A malicious TLS/SSL server could use this flaw to crash a TLS/SSL client or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the client, if the client passed a fixed-sized buffer to gnutls_session_get_data() before checking the real size of the session data provided by the server.
(CVE-2011-4128)

Red Hat would like to thank Matthew Hall of Mu Dynamics for reporting CVE-2012-1573.

Users of GnuTLS are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. For the update to take effect, all applications linked to the GnuTLS library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2012:0428 :

Updated gnutls packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The GnuTLS library provides support for cryptographic algorithms and for protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS). GnuTLS includes libtasn1, a library developed for ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) structures management that includes DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) encoding and decoding.

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS decrypted malformed TLS records.
This could cause a TLS/SSL client or server to crash when processing a specially crafted TLS record from a remote TLS/SSL connection peer.
(CVE-2012-1573)

A flaw was found in the way libtasn1 decoded DER data. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted X.509 certificate that, when parsed by an application that uses GnuTLS, could cause the application to crash. (CVE-2012-1569)

A boundary error was found in the gnutls_session_get_data() function.
A malicious TLS/SSL server could use this flaw to crash a TLS/SSL client or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the client, if the client passed a fixed-sized buffer to gnutls_session_get_data() before checking the real size of the session data provided by the server.
(CVE-2011-4128)

Red Hat would like to thank Matthew Hall of Mu Dynamics for reporting CVE-2012-1573 and CVE-2012-1569.

Users of GnuTLS are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. For the update to take effect, all applications linked to the GnuTLS library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

a. vCenter and ESX update to JRE 1.6.0 Update 31

   The Oracle (Sun) JRE is updated to version 1.6.0_31, which    addresses multiple security issues. Oracle has documented the    CVE identifiers that are addressed by this update in the Oracle    Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory of February 2012.

b. vCenter Update Manager update to JRE 1.5.0 Update 36

   The Oracle (Sun) JRE is updated to 1.5.0_36 to address multiple    security issues.  Oracle has documented the CVE identifiers that    are addressed in JRE 1.5.0_36 in the Oracle Java SE Critical    Patch Update Advisory for June 2012.

c. Update to ESX/ESXi userworld OpenSSL library

   The ESX/ESXi userworld OpenSSL library is updated from version    0.9.8p to version 0.9.8t to resolve multiple security issues.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the names CVE-2010-4180, CVE-2010-4252,    CVE-2011-0014, CVE-2011-4108, CVE-2011-4109, CVE-2011-4576,    CVE-2011-4577, CVE-2011-4619, and CVE-2012-0050 to these issues.

d. Update to ESX service console OpenSSL RPM

   The service console OpenSSL RPM is updated to version    0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3 to resolve a security issue.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the name CVE-2012-2110 to this issue.

e. Update to ESX service console kernel

   The ESX service console kernel is updated to resolve multiple    security issues.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the names CVE-2011-1833, CVE-2011-2484,    CVE-2011-2496, CVE-2011-3188, CVE-2011-3209, CVE-2011-3363,    CVE-2011-4110, CVE-2011-1020, CVE-2011-4132, CVE-2011-4324,    CVE-2011-4325, CVE-2012-0207, CVE-2011-2699, and CVE-2012-1583    to these issues.

f. Update to ESX service console Perl RPM

   The ESX service console Perl RPM is updated to    perl-5.8.8.32.1.8999.vmw to resolve multiple security issues.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the names CVE-2010-2761, CVE-2010-4410, and    CVE-2011-3597 to these issues.

g. Update to ESX service console libxml2 RPMs

   The ESX service console libmxl2 RPMs are updated to    libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.15.el5_8.2 and    libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.15.el5_8.2 to resolve a security    issue.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the name CVE-2012-0841 to this issue.

h. Update to ESX service console glibc RPM

   The ESX service console glibc RPM is updated to version    glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.1 to resolve multiple security issues.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)   has assigned the names CVE-2009-5029, CVE-2009-5064,    CVE-2010-0830, CVE-2011-1089, CVE-2011-4609, and CVE-2012-0864    to these issue.

i. Update to ESX service console GnuTLS RPM

   The ESX service console GnuTLS RPM is updated to version    1.4.1-7.el5_8.2 to resolve multiple security issues.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the names CVE-2011-4128, CVE-2012-1569, and    CVE-2012-1573 to these issues.

j. Update to ESX service console popt, rpm, rpm-libs,    and rpm-python RPMS

   The ESX service console popt, rpm, rpm-libs, and rpm-python RPMS    are updated to the following versions to resolve multiple    security issues :
      - popt-1.10.2.3-28.el5_8
      - rpm-4.4.2.3-28.el5_8
      - rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-28.el5_8
      - rpm-python-4.4.2.3-28.el5_8

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the name CVE-2012-0060, CVE-2012-0061, and    CVE-2012-0815 to these issues.

k. Vulnerability in third-party Apache Struts component

   The version of Apache Struts in vCenter Operations has been    updated to 2.3.4 which addresses an arbitrary file overwrite    vulnerability. This vulnerability allows an attacker to create    a denial of service by overwriting arbitrary files without    authentication. The attacker would need to be on the same network    as the system where vCOps is installed.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has    assigned the name CVE-2012-0393 to this issue.

   Note: Apache struts 2.3.4 addresses the following issues as well :
   CVE-2011-5057, CVE-2012-0391, CVE-2012-0392, CVE-2012-0394. It    was found that these do not affect vCOps.

   VMware would like to thank Alexander Minozhenko from ERPScan for    reporting this issue to us.

The GnuTLS library provides support for cryptographic algorithms and for protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS).

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS decrypted malformed TLS records.
This could cause a TLS/SSL client or server to crash when processing a specially crafted TLS record from a remote TLS/SSL connection peer.
(CVE-2012-1573)

A boundary error was found in the gnutls_session_get_data() function.
A malicious TLS/SSL server could use this flaw to crash a TLS/SSL client or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the client, if the client passed a fixed-sized buffer to gnutls_session_get_data() before checking the real size of the session data provided by the server.
(CVE-2011-4128)

Users of GnuTLS are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. For the update to take effect, all applications linked to the GnuTLS library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

The GnuTLS library provides support for cryptographic algorithms and for protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS). GnuTLS includes libtasn1, a library developed for ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) structures management that includes DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) encoding and decoding.

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS decrypted malformed TLS records.
This could cause a TLS/SSL client or server to crash when processing a specially crafted TLS record from a remote TLS/SSL connection peer.
(CVE-2012-1573)

A flaw was found in the way libtasn1 decoded DER data. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted X.509 certificate that, when parsed by an application that uses GnuTLS, could cause the application to crash. (CVE-2012-1569)

A boundary error was found in the gnutls_session_get_data() function.
A malicious TLS/SSL server could use this flaw to crash a TLS/SSL client or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the client, if the client passed a fixed-sized buffer to gnutls_session_get_data() before checking the real size of the session data provided by the server.
(CVE-2011-4128)

Users of GnuTLS are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. For the update to take effect, all applications linked to the GnuTLS library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201206-18 (GnuTLS: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GnuTLS:
      An error in libgnutls does not properly sanitize '\\0' characters from         certificate fields (CVE-2009-2730).
      An error in the TLS and SSL protocols mistreats renegotiation         handshakes (CVE-2009-3555).
      A boundary error in the 'gnutls_session_get_data()' function in         gnutls_session.c could cause a buffer overflow (CVE-2011-4128).
      An error in the '_gnutls_ciphertext2compressed()' function in         gnutls_cipher.c could cause memory corruption (CVE-2012-1573).
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could perform man-in-the-middle attacks to spoof       arbitrary SSL servers or cause a Denial of Service condition in       applications linked against GnuTLS.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Important security update fixing two security issues.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Alban Crequy discovered that the GnuTLS library incorrectly checked array bounds when copying TLS session data. A remote attacker could crash a client application, leading to a denial of service, as the client application prepared for TLS session resumption.
(CVE-2011-4128)

Matthew Hall discovered that the GnuTLS library incorrectly handled TLS records. A remote attacker could crash client and server applications, leading to a denial of service, by sending a crafted TLS record. (CVE-2012-1573).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in GnuTLS :

Buffer overflow in the gnutls_session_get_data function in lib/gnutls_session.c in GnuTLS 2.12.x before 2.12.14 and 3.x before 3.0.7, when used on a client that performs nonstandard session resumption, allows remote TLS servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large SessionTicket (CVE-2011-4128).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Updated gnutls packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The GnuTLS library provides support for cryptographic algorithms and for protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS).

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS decrypted malformed TLS records.
This could cause a TLS/SSL client or server to crash when processing a specially crafted TLS record from a remote TLS/SSL connection peer.
(CVE-2012-1573)

A boundary error was found in the gnutls_session_get_data() function.
A malicious TLS/SSL server could use this flaw to crash a TLS/SSL client or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the client, if the client passed a fixed-sized buffer to gnutls_session_get_data() before checking the real size of the session data provided by the server.
(CVE-2011-4128)

Red Hat would like to thank Matthew Hall of Mu Dynamics for reporting CVE-2012-1573.

Users of GnuTLS are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. For the update to take effect, all applications linked to the GnuTLS library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0428 advisory.

  - gnutls: buffer overflow in gnutls_session_get_data() (GNUTLS-SA-2011-2) (CVE-2011-4128)

  - libtasn1: DER decoding buffer overflow (GNUTLS-SA-2012-3, MU-201202-02) (CVE-2012-1569)

  - gnutls: TLS record handling issue (GNUTLS-SA-2012-2, MU-201202-01) (CVE-2012-1573)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Updated gnutls packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The GnuTLS library provides support for cryptographic algorithms and for protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS). GnuTLS includes libtasn1, a library developed for ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) structures management that includes DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) encoding and decoding.

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS decrypted malformed TLS records.
This could cause a TLS/SSL client or server to crash when processing a specially crafted TLS record from a remote TLS/SSL connection peer.
(CVE-2012-1573)

A flaw was found in the way libtasn1 decoded DER data. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted X.509 certificate that, when parsed by an application that uses GnuTLS, could cause the application to crash. (CVE-2012-1569)

A boundary error was found in the gnutls_session_get_data() function.
A malicious TLS/SSL server could use this flaw to crash a TLS/SSL client or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the client, if the client passed a fixed-sized buffer to gnutls_session_get_data() before checking the real size of the session data provided by the server.
(CVE-2011-4128)

Red Hat would like to thank Matthew Hall of Mu Dynamics for reporting CVE-2012-1573 and CVE-2012-1569.

Users of GnuTLS are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. For the update to take effect, all applications linked to the GnuTLS library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

This update for GnuTLS provides the following fixes :

  - Fix typo in patch for gnutls-cli that can cause a crash.
    (bnc#659907)

  - Fix Buffer overflow in the gnutls_session_get_data     function in lib/gnutls_session.c , when used on a client     that performs nonstandard session resumption, allows     remote TLS servers to cause a denial of service     (application crash) via a large SessionTicket.
    (CVE-2011-4128)

The GnuTLS team reports :

GNUTLS-SA-2011-2 Possible buffer overflow/Denial of service.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198544	RHEL 6 : mingw32-gnutls (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
89038	VMware ESX / ESXi Third-Party Libraries Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2012-0013) (remote check)	Nessus	Misc.	high
80628	Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : gnutls (cve_2011_4128_buffer_overflow)	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	medium
79286	RHEL 5 : rhev-hypervisor5 (RHSA-2012:0488)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
75855	openSUSE Security Update : gnutls (openSUSE-SU-2012:0215-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
70439	Slackware 12.1 / 12.2 / 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 : gnutls (SSA:2013-287-03)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	medium
69666	Amazon Linux AMI : gnutls (ALAS-2012-59)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
68504	Oracle Linux 6 : gnutls (ELSA-2012-0429)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
68503	Oracle Linux 5 : gnutls (ELSA-2012-0428)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
61747	VMSA-2012-0013 : VMware vSphere and vCOps updates to third-party libraries	Nessus	VMware ESX Local Security Checks	critical
61291	Scientific Linux Security Update : gnutls on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120327)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
61290	Scientific Linux Security Update : gnutls on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120327)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
59671	GLSA-201206-18 : GnuTLS: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
58668	Fedora 15 : gnutls-2.10.5-3.fc15 (2012-4569)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
58618	Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : gnutls13, gnutls26 vulnerabilities (USN-1418-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
58557	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gnutls (MDVSA-2012:045)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
58519	CentOS 6 : gnutls (CESA-2012:0429)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
58510	RHEL 6 : gnutls (RHSA-2012:0429)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
58509	RHEL 5 : gnutls (RHSA-2012:0428)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
58504	CentOS 5 : gnutls (CESA-2012:0428)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
57696	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : GnuTLS (SAT Patch Number 5684)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
56763	FreeBSD : gnutls -- client session resumption vulnerability (bdec8dc2-0b3b-11e1-b722-001cc0476564)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium

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