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openSUSE Security Update : gnutls (gnutls-358)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39972

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441856

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39972

File Name: suse_11_0_gnutls-081204.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

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:libgnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls26, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-extra-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls26-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-extra26

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