RHEL 5 : gnutls (RHSA-2012:0428)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 58509

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for gnutls.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0428 advisory.

- gnutls: buffer overflow in gnutls_session_get_data() (GNUTLS-SA-2011-2) (CVE-2011-4128)

- libtasn1: DER decoding buffer overflow (GNUTLS-SA-2012-3, MU-201202-02) (CVE-2012-1569)

- gnutls: TLS record handling issue (GNUTLS-SA-2012-2, MU-201202-01) (CVE-2012-1573)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL gnutls package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:0428.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 58509

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0428.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/28/2012

Updated: 4/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1573

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4128, CVE-2012-1569, CVE-2012-1573

BID: 50609, 52667, 52668

RHSA: 2012:0428

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