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FreeBSD Ports: gnutls

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.6

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

7 years ago

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-2008-2377 Use after free vulnerability in the _gnutls_handshake_hash_buffers_clear function in lib/gnutls_handshake.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS 2.3.5 through 2.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via TLS transmission of data that is improperly used when the peer calls gnutls_handshake within a normal session, leading to attempted access to a deallocated libgcrypt handle.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/2947 http://secunia.com/advisories/31505/ http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/d864a0a7-6f27-11dd-acfe-00104b9e1a4a.html

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