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CentOS 8 : gnutls (CESA-2024:0155)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 187916

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2024:0155 advisory.

 - A vulnerability was found that the response times to malformed ciphertexts in RSA-PSK ClientKeyExchange differ from response times of ciphertexts with correct PKCS#1 v1.5 padding. (CVE-2023-5981)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0155

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 187916

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2024-0155.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/10/2024

Updated: 1/10/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:centos:centos:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-dane, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-c%2b%2b

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5981

RHSA: 2024:0155