Ubuntu 15.04 : gnutls28 vulnerabilities (USN-2727-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85735

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled parsing CRL distribution points. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2015-3308)

Kurt Roeckx discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled a long DistinguishedName (DN) entry in a certificate. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-6251).

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

Solution

Update the affected libgnutls-deb0-28 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85735

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2727-1.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 9/2/2015

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgnutls-deb0-28, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3308, CVE-2015-6251

USN: 2727-1

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