SuSE 11.3 Security Update : gnutls (SAT Patch Number 9320)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74321

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

GnuTLS has been patched to ensure proper parsing of session ids during the TLS/SSL handshake. Additionally, three issues inherited from libtasn1 have been fixed.

Further information is available at http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2014-3

These security issues have been fixed :

- Possible memory corruption during connect.
(CVE-2014-3466)

- Multiple boundary check issues could allow DoS.
(CVE-2014-3467)

- asn1_get_bit_der() can return negative bit length.
(CVE-2014-3468)

- Possible DoS by NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2014-3469)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 9320.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880730

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880910

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3466.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3467.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3468.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3469.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74321

File Name: suse_11_gnutls-140603.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/5/2014

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libgnutls-extra26, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libgnutls26, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libgnutls26-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3466, CVE-2014-3467, CVE-2014-3468, CVE-2014-3469