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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : gnutls26 vulnerability (USN-2121-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72701

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Synopsis

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

Description

Suman Jana discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled version 1 intermediate certificates. This resulted in them being considered to be a valid CA certificate by default, which was contrary to documented behaviour.

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Solution

Update the affected libgnutls26 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2121-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72701

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2121-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/26/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgnutls26, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1959

BID: 65559

USN: 2121-1