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Fedora 8 : gnutls-1.6.3-5.fc8 (2008-9600)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34750

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Nov 11 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.6.3-5

 - fix chain verification issue CVE-2008-4989 (#470079)

 - Fri Jun 20 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.6.3-4

 - backported fix for compression support (#451952)

 - Tue May 20 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.6.3-3

 - fix three security issues in gnutls handshake - GNUTLS-SA-2008-1 (#447461, #447462, #447463)

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470079

http://www.nessus.org/u?bc7883d2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34750

File Name: fedora_2008-9600.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnutls, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4989

CWE: 255

FEDORA: 2008-9600