Fedora 17 : mingw-gnutls-2.12.23-1.fc17 (2013-3438)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65533

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Version 2.12.23 (released 2012-02-04)

- libgnutls: Eliminated memory leak in PCKS #11 initialization. Report and fix by Sam Varshavchik.

- libgnutls: Fixes in record padding parsing to prevent a timing attack. Issue reported by Kenny Patterson and Nadhem Alfardan.

- libgnutls: DN variable 'T' was expanded to 'title'.

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-gnutls package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?52e85120

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65533

File Name: fedora_2013-3438.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-gnutls, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2013

Reference Information

BID: 57736

FEDORA: 2013-3438