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CentOS 4 : gnutls (CESA-2008:0492)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 43689

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated gnutls packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

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

The GnuTLS Library provides support for cryptographic algorithms and protocols such as TLS. GnuTLS includes libtasn1, a library developed for ASN.1 structures management that includes DER encoding and decoding.

Flaws were found in the way GnuTLS handles malicious client connections. A malicious remote client could send a specially crafted request to a service using GnuTLS that could cause the service to crash. (CVE-2008-1948, CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)

We believe it is possible to leverage the flaw CVE-2008-1948 to execute arbitrary code but have been unable to prove this at the time of releasing this advisory. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not ship with any applications directly affected by this flaw. Third-party software which runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 could, however, be affected by this vulnerability. Consequently, we have assigned it important severity.

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

Solution

Update the affected gnutls packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8ad84ffc

http://www.nessus.org/u?ea79a454

http://www.nessus.org/u?b421b015

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 43689

File Name: centos_RHSA-2008-0492.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:centos:centos:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2008

Reference Information

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

BID: 29292

CWE: 189, 287

RHSA: 2008:0492