openSUSE 10 Security Update : gnutls (gnutls-2118)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27242

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

A security problem was fixed in the GNU TLS library, where excess data was not checked during signature checking with RSA keys with exponent 3.

This problem could be used to fake those RSA signatures.
(CVE-2006-4790)

Solution

Update the affected gnutls packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27242

File Name: suse_gnutls-2118.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-devel-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4790