openSUSE 10 Security Update : gnutls (gnutls-5844)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35080

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

gnutls did not properly verify x509 certificate chains. An attacker could exploit that to trick client programs into trusting servers that would normally get rejected (CVE-2008-4989).

Solution

Update the affected gnutls packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35080

File Name: suse_gnutls-5844.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/10/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4989

CWE: 255

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