Fedora 12 : gnutls-2.8.6-2.fc12 (2010-9487)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47537

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Add implementation of the safe renegotiation extension to fix the CVE-2009-3555 security vulnerability.

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=533125

http://www.nessus.org/u?a0000917

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47537

File Name: fedora_2010-9487.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

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: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnutls, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/4/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3555

CWE: 310

FEDORA: 2010-9487