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GLSA-200808-08 : stunnel: Security bypass

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33854

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200808-08 (stunnel: Security bypass)

 An unspecified bug in the OCSP search functionality of stunnel has been discovered.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker can use a revoked certificate that would be successfully authenticated by stunnel. This issue only concerns the users who have enabled the OCSP validation in stunnel.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All stunnel users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-misc/stunnel-4.24'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200808-08

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33854

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200808-08.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 8/10/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:stunnel, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2420

CWE: 264

GLSA: 200808-08