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FreeBSD Ports: gnutls

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 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 packages are affected: gnutls gnutls-devel CVE-2009-2730 libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.8.2 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's (1) Common Name (CN) or (2) Subject Alternative Name (SAN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.gnutls.general/1733 http://secunia.com/advisories/36266 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/856a6f84-8b30-11de-8062-00e0815b8da8.html

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