Debian DLA-3660-1 : gnutls28 - LTS security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 186205

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3660 advisory.

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

Solution

Upgrade the gnutls28 packages.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.7-4+deb10u11.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2023/dla-3660

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-5981

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/gnutls28

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056188

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/gnutls28

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 186205

File Name: debian_DLA-3660.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/22/2023

Updated: 12/5/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5981

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnutls-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnutls-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgnutls-dane0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgnutls-openssl27, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgnutls28-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgnutls30, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgnutlsxx28, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5981