CentOS 4 / 5 : gnutls (CESA-2009:1232)

high Nessus Plugin ID 40779

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated gnutls packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The GnuTLS library provides support for cryptographic algorithms and for protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS).

A flaw was discovered in the way GnuTLS handles NULL characters in certain fields of X.509 certificates. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted certificate signed by a Certificate Authority trusted by an application using GnuTLS, the attacker could use the certificate during a man-in-the-middle attack and potentially confuse the application into accepting it by mistake. (CVE-2009-2730)

Users of GnuTLS are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch that corrects this issue.

Solution

Update the affected gnutls packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 40779

File Name: centos_RHSA-2009-1232.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 8/27/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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:centos:centos:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-utils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2730

BID: 35952

CWE: 310

RHSA: 2009:1232

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