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Ubuntu 14.10 : gnutls28 vulnerability (USN-2403-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79209

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Sean Burford discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled printing certain elliptic curve parameters. A malicious remote server or client could use this issue to cause GnuTLS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2403-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79209

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2403-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnutls-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgnutls-deb0-28, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgnutls-openssl27, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgnutlsxx28, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8564

BID: 71003

USN: 2403-1