Fedora 16 : mingw-libtasn1-2.12-1.fc16 / mingw32-gnutls-2.12.14-3.fc16 (2012-4409)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58551

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update fixes a a DER decoding buffer overflow in the MinGW cross compiled libtasn1 and gnutls packages. The mingw-gnutls build also switches to using the system libtasn1 library instead of its bundled copy.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mingw-libtasn1 and / or mingw32-gnutls packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804920

http://www.nessus.org/u?71af81f8

http://www.nessus.org/u?09c65976

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58551

File Name: fedora_2012-4409.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/2/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-libtasn1, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw32-gnutls, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1569

FEDORA: 2012-4409