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Debian DSA-2866-1 : gnutls26 - certificate verification flaw

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72647

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Suman Jana reported that GnuTLS, deviating from the documented behavior, considers a version 1 intermediate certificate as a CA certificate by default.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem as X.509 version 1 trusted CA certificates are not allowed by default.

Solution

Upgrade the gnutls26 packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.12.20-8.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/gnutls26

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2866

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72647

File Name: debian_DSA-2866.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnutls26, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/22/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1959

DSA: 2866