Security update for gnutls

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:0304-1
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2016-8610 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2016-8610 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2016-8610 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2017-5335 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2017-5336 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2017-5337 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4

An update that solves four vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description:

This update for gnutls fixes the following issues:

  • Malformed asn1 definitions could cause a segmentation fault in the asn1 definition parser (bsc#961491).
  • CVE-2016-8610: Remote denial of service in SSL alert handling (bsc#1005879).
  • CVE-2017-5335: Decoding a specially crafted OpenPGP certificate could have lead to heap and stack overflows (bsc#1018832).
  • CVE-2017-5336: Decoding a specially crafted OpenPGP certificate could have lead to heap and stack overflows (bsc#1018832).
  • CVE-2017-5337: Decoding a specially crafted OpenPGP certificate could have lead to heap and stack overflows (bsc#1018832).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slehasp4-gnutls-12957=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-gnutls-12957=1 slehasp4-gnutls-12957=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch sdksp4-gnutls-12957=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-gnutls-12957=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • libgnutls-extra26-2.4.1-24.39.67.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 x86_64)
    • gnutls-2.4.1-24.39.67.1
    • libgnutls26-2.4.1-24.39.67.1
    • libgnutls26-32bit-2.4.1-24.39.67.1
    • libgnutls-extra26-2.4.1-24.39.67.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • libgnutls-extra26-2.4.1-24.39.67.1
    • libgnutls-extra-devel-2.4.1-24.39.67.1
    • libgnutls-devel-2.4.1-24.39.67.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • gnutls-2.4.1-24.39.67.1
    • libgnutls26-2.4.1-24.39.67.1
    • libgnutls-extra26-2.4.1-24.39.67.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (ia64)
    • libgnutls26-x86-2.4.1-24.39.67.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (ppc64 s390x x86_64)
    • libgnutls26-32bit-2.4.1-24.39.67.1

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