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Fedora 28 : libtomcrypt (2018-9d667bdff8)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120655

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fix Side Channel Based ECDSA Key Extraction (CVE-2018-12437) (PR #408)

 - Fix potential stack overflow when DER flexi-decoding (CVE-2018-0739) (PR #373)

 - Fix two-key 3DES (PR #390)

 - Fix accelerated CTR mode (PR #359)

 - Fix Fortuna PRNG (PR #363)

 - Fix compilation on platforms where cc doesn't point to gcc (PR #382)

 - Fix using the wrong environment variable LT instead of LIBTOOL (PR #392)

 - Fix build on platforms where the compiler provides
 __WCHAR_MAX__ but wchar.h is not available (PR #390)

 - Fix & re-factor crypt_list_all_sizes() and crypt_list_all_constants() (PR #414)

 - Minor fixes (PR's #350 #351 #375 #377 #378 #379)

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Solution

Update the affected libtomcrypt package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-9d667bdff8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120655

File Name: fedora_2018-9d667bdff8.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 7/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12437

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtomcrypt

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/19/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0739, CVE-2018-12437