CentOS 7 : gnutls (CESA-2018:3050)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 119690
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VPR Score: 4.4
Synopsis
The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.Description
An update for gnutls is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
The gnutls packages provide the GNU Transport Layer Security (GnuTLS) library, which implements cryptographic algorithms and protocols such as SSL, TLS, and DTLS.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:
gnutls (3.3.29). (BZ#1561481)
Security Fix(es) :
* gnutls: HMAC-SHA-256 vulnerable to Lucky thirteen attack due to not enough dummy function calls (CVE-2018-10844)
* gnutls: HMAC-SHA-384 vulnerable to Lucky thirteen attack due to use of wrong constant (CVE-2018-10845)
* gnutls: 'Just in Time' PRIME + PROBE cache-based side channel attack can lead to plaintext recovery (CVE-2018-10846)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes :
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Solution
Update the affected gnutls packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 119690
File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-3050.nasl
Version: 1.4
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: CentOS Local Security Checks
Published: 12/17/2018
Updated: 3/27/2020
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
Risk Factor: Medium
VPR Score: 4.4
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10844
CVSS v2.0
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C
CVSS v3.0
Base Score: 5.9
Temporal Score: 5.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-c++, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-dane, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-utils, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/14/2018
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2018
Reference Information
RHSA: 2018:3050