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FreeBSD Ports: gnutls

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

7 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following package is affected: gnutls CVE-2008-4989 The _gnutls_x509_verify_certificate function in lib/x509/verify.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.6.1 trusts certificate chains in which the last certificate is an arbitrary trusted, self-signed certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to insert a spoofed certificate for any Distinguished Name (DN).

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-11/msg00017.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/45298931-b3bf-11dd-80f8-001cc0377035.html

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