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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : gnutls26 vulnerability (USN-1843-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66692

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled certain padding bytes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using GnuTLS to crash, leading to a denial of service.

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Solution

Update the affected libgnutls26 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1843-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66692

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1843-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/30/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgnutls26, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2116

USN: 1843-1