SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : gnutls (SUSE-SU-2018:2842-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 117702

Language:

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for gnutls fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

Improved mitigations against Lucky 13 class of attacks

- 'Just in Time' PRIME + PROBE cache-based side channel attack can lead to plaintext recovery (CVE-2018-10846, bsc#1105460)

- HMAC-SHA-384 vulnerable to Lucky thirteen attack due to use of wrong constant (CVE-2018-10845, bsc#1105459)

- HMAC-SHA-256 vulnerable to Lucky thirteen attack due to not enough dummy function calls (CVE-2018-10844, bsc#1105437)

The _asn1_check_identifier function in Libtasn1 caused a NULL pointer dereference and crash (CVE-2017-10790, bsc#1047002)

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-1990=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-1990=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-1990=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047002

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105437

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105459

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105460

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10790/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10844/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10845/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10846/

http://www.nessus.org/u?1c9a5223

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 117702

File Name: suse_SU-2018-2842-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/25/2018

Updated: 8/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10845

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgnutls-openssl27, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgnutls28-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnutls-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgnutls28, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgnutls-openssl27-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnutls-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnutls

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10790, CVE-2018-10844, CVE-2018-10845, CVE-2018-10846