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Oracle Linux 8 : gnutls (ELSA-2024-1784)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193323

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-1784 advisory.

 [3.6.16-8.3_fips]
 - Allow RSA keygen with modulus sizes bigger than 3072 bits and validate the seed length as defined in FIPS 186-4 section B.3.2 [Orabug: 33200526]
 - Allow bigger known RSA modulus sizes when calling rsa_generate_fips186_4_keypair directly [Orabug: 33200526]
 - Change Epoch from 1 to 10_fips

 [3.6.16-8.3]
 - Fix memleak with older GMP (RHEL-28957)

 [3.6.16-8.2]
 - Fix timing side-channel in deterministic ECDSA (RHEL-28957)

 [3.6.16-8.1]
 - auth/rsa-psk: minimize branching after decryption (RHEL-21586)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-1784.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193323

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-1784.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/15/2024

Updated: 9/9/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

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: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gnutls-dane, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:10:baseos_base, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:9:baseos_patch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gnutls-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gnutls-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gnutls

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

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