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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : gnutls12 vulnerability (USN-948-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 46812

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that GnuTLS did not always properly verify the hash algorithm of X.509 certificates. If an application linked against GnuTLS processed a crafted certificate, an attacker could make GnuTLS dereference a NULL pointer and cause a DoS via application crash.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/948-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 46812

File Name: ubuntu_USN-948-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/4/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnutls-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgnutls-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgnutls12-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgnutls12

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-7239

USN: 948-1