Security update for gnutls

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1886-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2017-6891 ( SUSE ): 5.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
  • CVE-2017-6891 ( NVD ): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2017-6891 ( NVD ): 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2017-7869 ( SUSE ): 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2017-7869 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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 two vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for gnutls fixes the following issues:

  • GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 / CVE-2017-7869: An out-of-bounds write in OpenPGP certificate decoding was fixed (bsc#1034173)
  • CVE-2017-6891: A potential stack buffer overflow in the bundled libtasn1 was fixed (bsc#1040621)
  • An address read of 4 bytes past the end of buffer in OpenPGP certificate parsing was fixed (bsc#1038337)

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-13212=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slehasp4-gnutls-13212=1 slessp4-gnutls-13212=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch sdksp4-gnutls-13212=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-gnutls-13212=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • libgnutls-extra26-2.4.1-24.39.70.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 x86_64)
    • libgnutls26-2.4.1-24.39.70.1
    • gnutls-2.4.1-24.39.70.1
    • libgnutls-extra26-2.4.1-24.39.70.1
    • libgnutls26-32bit-2.4.1-24.39.70.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • libgnutls-devel-2.4.1-24.39.70.1
    • libgnutls-extra26-2.4.1-24.39.70.1
    • libgnutls-extra-devel-2.4.1-24.39.70.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • libgnutls26-2.4.1-24.39.70.1
    • gnutls-2.4.1-24.39.70.1
    • libgnutls-extra26-2.4.1-24.39.70.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (ia64)
    • libgnutls26-x86-2.4.1-24.39.70.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (ppc64 s390x x86_64)
    • libgnutls26-32bit-2.4.1-24.39.70.1

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