Debian DSA-1581-1 : gnutls13 - several vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 32403

Synopsis

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

Description

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNUTLS, an implementation of the SSL/TLS protocol suite.

NOTE: The libgnutls13 package, which provides the GNUTLS library, does not contain logic to automatically restart potentially affected services. You must restart affected services manually (mainly Exim, using '/etc/init.d/exim4 restart') after applying the update, to make the changes fully effective. Alternatively, you can reboot the system.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2008-1948 A pre-authentication heap overflow involving oversized session resumption data may lead to arbitrary code execution.

- CVE-2008-1949 Repeated client hellos may result in a pre-authentication denial of service condition due to a NULL pointer dereference.

- CVE-2008-1950 Decoding cipher padding with an invalid record length may cause GNUTLS to read memory beyond the end of the received record, leading to a pre-authentication denial of service condition.

Solution

Upgrade the GNUTLS packages.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.4-3+etch1. (Builds for the arm architecture are currently not available and will be released later.)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 32403

File Name: debian_DSA-1581.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/22/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnutls13, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/20/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1948, CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950

BID: 29292

CWE: 189, 287

DSA: 1581

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