Fedora 9 : gnutls-2.0.4-3.fc9 (2008-4259)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 32412

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes critical security issue GNUTLS-SA-2008-1 described here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00060.html All applications and system services which utilize gnutls library must be restarted for the updates to take effect.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00060.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447461

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447462

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447463

http://www.nessus.org/u?5b889817

http://www.nessus.org/u?6283d718

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 32412

File Name: fedora_2008-4259.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/22/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnutls, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1948, CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950

BID: 29292

CWE: 189, 287

FEDORA: 2008-4259