RHEL 9 : gnutls (RHSA-2023:1200)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172548

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for gnutls.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1200 advisory.

The gnutls packages provide the GNU Transport Layer Security (GnuTLS) library, which implements cryptographic algorithms and protocols such as SSL, TLS, and DTLS.

Security Fix(es):

* gnutls: timing side-channel in the TLS RSA key exchange code (CVE-2023-0361)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

* CCM tag length should be limited to known values (BZ#2144536)

* In FIPS mode, gnutls should reject RSASSA-PSS salt lengths larger than the output size of the hash function used, or provide an indicator (BZ#2144538)

* dracut-cmdline[554]: Error in GnuTLS initialization: Error while performing self checks i FIPS mode (BZ#2149641)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL gnutls package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:1200.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172548

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-1200.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/14/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0361

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-dane, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0361

CWE: 203

RHSA: 2023:1200

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