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HistoryJan 16, 2024 - 12:00 a.m.

GLSA-202401-24 : Nettle: Denial of Service

2024-01-1600:00:00
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nettle software
denial of service
vulnerability
rsa decryption
ocb feature
application crashes
memory corruption

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202401-24 (Nettle: Denial of Service)

  • A flaw was found in the way nettle’s RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service. (CVE-2021-3580)

  • The OCB feature in libnettle in Nettle 3.9 before 3.9.1 allows memory corruption. (CVE-2023-36660)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
#
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# @NOAGENT@
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202401-24.
#
# The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2021 Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
# and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike
# license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(188077);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/01/16");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-3580", "CVE-2023-36660");

  script_name(english:"GLSA-202401-24 : Nettle: Denial of Service");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202401-24 (Nettle: Denial of Service)

  - A flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An
    attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial
    of service. (CVE-2021-3580)

  - The OCB feature in libnettle in Nettle 3.9 before 3.9.1 allows memory corruption. (CVE-2023-36660)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806839");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=907673");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"All Nettle users should upgrade to the latest version:

          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-libs/nettle-3.9.1");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-3580");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-36660");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/08/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/01/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/01/16");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:nettle");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list");

  exit(0);
}
include('qpkg.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/Gentoo/release')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Gentoo');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var flag = 0;

var packages = [
  {
    'name' : 'dev-libs/nettle',
    'unaffected' : make_list("ge 3.9.1"),
    'vulnerable' : make_list("lt 3.9.1")
  }
];

foreach var package( packages ) {
  if (isnull(package['unaffected'])) package['unaffected'] = make_list();
  if (isnull(package['vulnerable'])) package['vulnerable'] = make_list();
  if (qpkg_check(package: package['name'] , unaffected: package['unaffected'], vulnerable: package['vulnerable'])) flag++;
}


if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    extra      : qpkg_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  qpkg_tests = list_uniq(qpkg_tests);
  var tested = qpkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'Nettle');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
gentoolinuxnettlep-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:nettle
gentoolinuxcpe:/o:gentoo:linux