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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : gnutls26 vulnerability (USN-2127-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72812

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Synopsis

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

Description

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled certificate verification functions. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited with specially crafted certificates to view sensitive information.

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Solution

Update the affected libgnutls26 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2127-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72812

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2127-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/5/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgnutls26, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0092

USN: 2127-1