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Debian DSA-986-1 : gnutls11 - buffer overflows

high Nessus Plugin ID 22852

Synopsis

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

Description

Evgeny Legerov discovered several out-of-bounds memory accesses in the DER decoding component of the Tiny ASN.1 Library, which is also present and used in GnuTLS, the GNU implementation for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 protocols and which allows attackers to crash the DER decoder and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the gnutls packages.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by these problems.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.16-13.2.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-986

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22852

File Name: debian_DSA-986.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0645

BID: 16568

DSA: 986