Debian DLA-593-1 : nettle security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 92874

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The cryptographic library nettle had a potential information leak problem reported.

CVE-2016-6489 RSA code is vulnerable to cache sharing related attacks.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this problems has been fixed in version 2.4-3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nettle packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92874

File Name: debian_DLA-593.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/12/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nettle-bin, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nettle-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libhogweed2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnettle4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nettle-dbg

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6489

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