Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0181: gnutls (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0181)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 236730

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2022:0181 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2021-20231:
A flaw was found in gnutls. A use after free issue in client sending key_share extension may lead to memory corruption and other consequences.

CVE-2021-20232:
A flaw was found in gnutls. A use after free issue in client_send_params in lib/ext/pre_shared_key.c may lead to memory corruption and other potential consequences.

CVE-2022-2509:
A vulnerability found in gnutls. This security flaw happens because of a double free error occurs during verification of pkcs7 signatures in gnutls_pkcs7_verify function.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20220181.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 236730

File Name: alinux3_sa_2022-0181.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20232

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-dane-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-c%2b%2b-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-utils, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-dane, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-debugsource

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20231, CVE-2021-20232, CVE-2022-2509