GLSA-202401-24 : Nettle: Denial of Service

critical Nessus Plugin ID 188077

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202401-24 (Nettle: Denial of Service)

- A flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service. (CVE-2021-3580)

- The OCB feature in libnettle in Nettle 3.9 before 3.9.1 allows memory corruption. (CVE-2023-36660)

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

Solution

All Nettle users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-libs/nettle-3.9.1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 188077

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202401-24.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 1/16/2024

Updated: 1/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3580

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-36660

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:nettle, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3580, CVE-2023-36660

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