Explore top 10 tips to secure your open-source projects now. Read More

×
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 488
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 488

SUSE: 2017:0348-1 Important: gnutls DoS Threat Advisory

suse
Calendar Grey February 1, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
Red Hat rolls out a critical OpenSSL update addressing various vulnerabilities. Make sure your servers are secured with the latest patches!
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for gnutls fixes the following security issues: - GnuTLS could have crashed when processing maliciously crafted OpenPGP certificates (GNUTLS-SA-2017-2, bsc#1018832, CVE-2017-5335, CVE-2017-5337, CVE-2017-5336) - GnuTLS could have falsely accepted certificates when using OCSP (GNUTLS-SA-2016-3, bsc#999646, CVE-2016-7444) - GnuTLS could have suffered from 100% CPU load DoS attacks by using SSL alert packets during the handshake (bsc#1005879, CVE-2016-8610) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-177=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1:

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update DoS SUSE gnutls issue fix certificate issues

References

#1005879 #1018832 #999646

Cross- CVE-2016-7444 CVE-2016-8610 CVE-2017-5335

CVE-2017-5336 CVE-2017-5337

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7444.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8610.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5335.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5336.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5337.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1005879

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:0348-1
Rating: important

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update DoS SUSE gnutls issue fix certificate issues

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.