FreeBSD Ports: gnutls is affected by use-after-free vulnerability, allowing remote attackers to cause denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via TLS transmission
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 9 |
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![]() | FreeBSD : gnutls -- 'gnutls_handshake()' Denial of Service (d864a0a7-6f27-11dd-acfe-00104b9e1a4a) | 21 Aug 200800:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | FreeBSD Ports: gnutls | 4 Sep 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | CVE-2008-2377 | 8 Aug 200819:00 | – | cvelist |
![]() | CVE-2008-2377 | 8 Aug 200819:41 | – | cve |
![]() | CVE-2008-2377 | 8 Aug 200800:00 | – | ubuntucve |
![]() | gnutls -- "gnutls_handshake()" Denial of Service | 15 Aug 200800:00 | – | freebsd |
![]() | Design/Logic Flaw | 8 Aug 200819:41 | – | prion |
![]() | CVE-2008-2377 | 8 Aug 200819:41 | – | nvd |
![]() | CVE-2008-2377 | 30 Oct 201510:19 | – | redhatcve |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc.
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61447");
script_version("2023-07-26T05:05:09+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-26 05:05:09 +0000 (Wed, 26 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-09-04 20:41:11 +0200 (Thu, 04 Sep 2008)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2377");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.6");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_name("FreeBSD Ports: gnutls");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 E-Soft Inc.");
script_family("FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/freebsd", "ssh/login/freebsdrel");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"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.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update your system with the appropriate patches or
software upgrades.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/2947");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/31505/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/d864a0a7-6f27-11dd-acfe-00104b9e1a4a.html");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update to the system
as announced in the referenced advisory.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-bsd.inc");
vuln = FALSE;
txt = "";
bver = portver(pkg:"gnutls");
if(!isnull(bver) && revcomp(a:bver, b:"2.3.5")>=0 && revcomp(a:bver, b:"2.4.1")<0) {
txt += 'Package gnutls version ' + bver + ' is installed which is known to be vulnerable.\n';
vuln = TRUE;
}
if(vuln) {
security_message(data:txt);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
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