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openSUSE Security Update : gnutls (openSUSE-2018-1092)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 117897

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for gnutls fixes the following security issues :

 - Improved mitigations against Lucky 13 class of attacks

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

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

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

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

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected gnutls packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1047002

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1105437

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1105459

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1105460

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 117897

File Name: openSUSE-2018-1092.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/3/2018

Updated: 8/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-guile-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-dane-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutlsxx28-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls30-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls30, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-guile, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutlsxx28, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls30-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-dane0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-dane0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutlsxx-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls30-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2018

Reference Information

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