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openSUSE Security Update : gnutls (openSUSE-SU-2014:1472-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79413

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

gnutls was updated to fix one security issue. 	 This security issue was fixed :

 - Parsing problem in elliptic curve blobs over TLS that could lead to remote crashes (CVE-2014-8564).

Solution

Update the affected gnutls packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904603

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00084.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79413

File Name: openSUSE-2014-696.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/24/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-openssl27-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls28, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutlsxx28-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls28-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutlsxx28, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls28-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls28-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutlsxx-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-openssl27, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8564