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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : gnutls (EulerOS-SA-2017-1041)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99886

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the gnutls packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A denial of service flaw was found in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections form other clients.(CVE-2016-8610)

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

Solution

Update the affected gnutls package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?61565e59

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99886

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1041.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 5/1/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls-dane, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls-utils, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8610