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Debian DSA-1182-1 : gnutls11 - cryptographic weakness

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22724

Synopsis

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

Description

Daniel Bleichenbacher discovered a flaw in GNU TLS cryptographic package that could allow an attacker to generate a forged signature that GNU TLS will accept as valid.

Solution

Upgrade the GNU TLS package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.16-13.2sarge2.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1182

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22724

File Name: debian_DSA-1182.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnutls11

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4790

DSA: 1182