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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : gnutls (EulerOS-SA-2019-1676)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 126418

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the gnutls packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A cache-based side channel attack was found in the way GnuTLS implements CBC-mode cipher suites. An attacker could use a combination of 'Just in Time' Prime+probe and Lucky-13 attacks to recover plain text in a cross-VM attack scenario.(CVE-2018-10846)

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

Solution

Update the affected gnutls package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?59cb9f91

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 126418

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1676.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 7/2/2019

Updated: 5/13/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10846

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls-utils, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls-dane, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10846