USN-2229-1

Joonas Kuorilehto discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled Server Hello messages. A malicious remote server or a machine-in-the-middle could use this issue to cause GnuTLS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / gnutls26

Package

Name: gnutls26
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/gnutls26@2.12.23-12ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.12.23-12ubuntu2.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.12.23-1ubuntu4

2.12.23-1ubuntu5

2.12.23-12ubuntu1

2.12.23-12ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "3.0.11+really2.12.23-12ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "gnutls-bin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.12.23-12ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "libgnutls-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.12.23-12ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "libgnutls-openssl27"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.12.23-12ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "libgnutls26"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.12.23-12ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "libgnutlsxx27"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-3466",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}