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Fedora 20 : mingw-gnutls-3.1.21-1.fc20 (2014-2583)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72675

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Version 3.1.21 (released 2014-02-13)

 - libgnutls: Tolerate servers that sent the SUPPORTED ECC extension.

 - libgnutls: Reduced the TLS and DTLS version requirements for all ciphersuites that are not GCM.

 - libgnutls: When two initial keywords are specified then treat the second as having the '+' modifier.

 - libgnutls: Fixed bug that prevented the rejection of v1 intermediate CA certificates. Reported and investigated by Suman Jana.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mingw-gnutls package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065092

http://www.nessus.org/u?2ec9d5fb

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72675

File Name: fedora_2014-2583.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/25/2014

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-gnutls

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1959

FEDORA: 2014-2583