Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61811
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0982
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2008:0982. The GnuTLS library provides support for cryptographic algorithms and for protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS). Martin von Gagern discovered a flaw in the way GnuTLS verified certificate chains provided by a server. A malicious server could use this flaw to spoof its identity by tricking client applications using the GnuTLS library to trust invalid certificates. (CVE-2008-4989) Users of GnuTLS are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch that corrects this issue. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0982.html http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 4.3
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4989 BugTraq ID: 32232 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32232 Bugtraq: 20081117 rPSA-2008-0322-1 gnutls (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498431/100/0/threaded Debian Security Information: DSA-1719 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1719 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00222.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00293.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-10.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:227 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3217 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3215 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11650 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0982.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021167 http://secunia.com/advisories/32619 http://secunia.com/advisories/32681 http://secunia.com/advisories/32687 http://secunia.com/advisories/32879 http://secunia.com/advisories/33501 http://secunia.com/advisories/33694 http://secunia.com/advisories/35423 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-260528-1 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:027 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2009:009 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/678-1/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-678-2 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3086 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1567 XForce ISS Database: gnutls-x509-name-spoofing(46482) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46482
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