Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : gnutls13, gnutls26 vulnerabilities (USN-1418-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58618

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Alban Crequy discovered that the GnuTLS library incorrectly checked array bounds when copying TLS session data. A remote attacker could crash a client application, leading to a denial of service, as the client application prepared for TLS session resumption.
(CVE-2011-4128)

Matthew Hall discovered that the GnuTLS library incorrectly handled TLS records. A remote attacker could crash client and server applications, leading to a denial of service, by sending a crafted TLS record. (CVE-2012-1573).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libgnutls13 and / or libgnutls26 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1418-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58618

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1418-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/6/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgnutls13, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgnutls26, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4128, CVE-2012-1573

BID: 50609, 52667

USN: 1418-1