RHEL 8 : gnutls (RHSA-2024:1784)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193228

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for gnutls.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1784 advisory.

- gnutls: vulnerable to Minerva side-channel information leak (CVE-2024-28834)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL gnutls package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:1784.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

http://www.nessus.org/u?0c475c91

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1784

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193228

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1784.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2024

Updated: 4/11/2024

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: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-28834

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-dane, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-utils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-28834

CWE: 200

RHSA: 2024:1784