openSUSE Security Update : gnutls (openSUSE-2018-1049)

high Nessus Plugin ID 117792

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for gnutls fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

- Improved mitigations against Lucky 13 class of attacks

- CVE-2018-10846: 'Just in Time' PRIME + PROBE cache-based side channel attack can lead to plaintext recovery (bsc#1105460)

- CVE-2018-10845: HMAC-SHA-384 vulnerable to Lucky thirteen attack due to use of wrong constant (bsc#1105459)

- CVE-2018-10844: HMAC-SHA-256 vulnerable to Lucky thirteen attack due to not enough dummy function calls (bsc#1105437)

- CVE-2017-10790: The _asn1_check_identifier function in Libtasn1 caused a NULL pointer dereference and crash (bsc#1047002)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected gnutls packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 117792

File Name: openSUSE-2018-1049.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/27/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls28-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls28-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls28-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutlsxx-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutlsxx28, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutlsxx28-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-openssl27, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-openssl27-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls28

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10790, CVE-2018-10844, CVE-2018-10845, CVE-2018-10846

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