Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gnutls (MDVSA-2013:040)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66054

Synopsis

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

Description

Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson devised an attack that recovers some bits of the plaintext of a GnuTLS session that utilizes that CBC ciphersuites, by using timing information (CVE-2013-1619).

The gnutls package has been updated to latest 3.0.28 version to fix above problem.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66054

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2013-040.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 4/20/2013

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64gnutls-ssl27, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64gnutls28, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64tasn1-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64tasn1_3, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libtasn1-tools, cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:1

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1619

MDVSA: 2013:040

MGASA: 2013-0050