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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702697
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2697-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'gnutls26' package(s) announced via the DSA-2697-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'gnutls26' package(s) announced via the DSA-2697-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that a malicious client could crash a GNUTLS server and vice versa, by sending TLS records encrypted with a block cipher which contain invalid padding.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected because the security fix that introduced this vulnerability was not applied to it.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.12.20-7.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.12.23-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnutls26 packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'gnutls26' package(s) on Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-2116
1028603
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028603
53911
http://secunia.com/advisories/53911
57260
http://secunia.com/advisories/57260
57274
http://secunia.com/advisories/57274
DSA-2697
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2697
MDVSA-2013:171
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:171
RHSA-2013:0883
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0883.html
SUSE-SU-2013:1060
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00019.html
SUSE-SU-2014:0320
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00001.html
SUSE-SU-2014:0322
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00003.html
USN-1843-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1843-1
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/6753
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/6754
http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2013-2
https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/5164d5a1d57cd0372a5dd074382ca960ca18b27d
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