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RHEL 4 : gnutls (RHSA-2006:0207)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 20886

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2006:0207 advisory.

 - - libtasn1 buffer overflow (CVE-2006-0645)

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-2006:0207.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c9afff35

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=180903

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0207

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 20886

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2006-0207.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2006

Updated: 4/21/2024

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2006-0645

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0645

RHSA: 2006:0207