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openSUSE Security Update : gnutls (gnutls-858)

high Nessus Plugin ID 39974

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of gnutls immproves the certificate validation process of gnutls-cli, prior gnutls-cli allowed man-in-the-middle attacks (only Gnus seems to use this tool).

Solution

Update the affected gnutls packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496385

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 39974

File Name: suse_11_0_gnutls-090507.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-extra-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-extra26, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls26, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls26-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2009