SUSE SLES10 Security Update : gnutls (SUSE-SU-2014:0321-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83612

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The GnuTLS library received a critical security fix and other updates :

- CVE-2014-0092: The X.509 certificate verification had incorrect error handling, which could lead to broken certificates marked as being valid.

- CVE-2009-5138: A verification problem in handling V1 certificates could also lead to V1 certificates incorrectly being handled.

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

Solution

Update the affected gnutls packages

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83612

File Name: suse_SU-2014-0321-1.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2015

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: Medium

Score: 4.2

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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnutls, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnutls-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-5138, CVE-2014-0092

BID: 65919, 65792

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