SUSE SLES11 Security Update : gnutls (SUSE-SU-2017:0304-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 96870

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for gnutls fixes the following issues :

- Malformed asn1 definitions could cause a segmentation fault in the asn1 definition parser (bsc#961491).

- CVE-2016-8610: Remote denial of service in SSL alert handling (bsc#1005879).

- CVE-2017-5335: Decoding a specially crafted OpenPGP certificate could have lead to heap and stack overflows (bsc#1018832).

- CVE-2017-5336: Decoding a specially crafted OpenPGP certificate could have lead to heap and stack overflows (bsc#1018832).

- CVE-2017-5337: Decoding a specially crafted OpenPGP certificate could have lead to heap and stack overflows (bsc#1018832).

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

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-gnutls-12957=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-gnutls-12957=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slehasp4-gnutls-12957=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-gnutls-12957=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 96870

File Name: suse_SU-2017-0304-1.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/30/2017

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgnutls-extra26, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgnutls26, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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: 1/27/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/24/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8610, CVE-2017-5335, CVE-2017-5336, CVE-2017-5337

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