Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1182-1 gnutls11 -- cryptographic weakness

Date Reported:

22 Sep 2006

Affected Packages:

gnutls11

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-4790.

More information:

Daniel Bleichenbacher discovered a flaw in GNU TLS cryptographic package that could allow an attacker to generate a forged signature that GNU TLS will accept as valid.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.16-13.2sarge2.

The unstable distribution (sid) does no longer contain gnutls11, for gnutls13 this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your GNU TLS package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls11_1.0.16.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dbg_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dev_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dbg_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dev_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dbg_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dev_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_arm.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dbg_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dev_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dbg_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dev_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dbg_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dev_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dbg_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dev_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dbg_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dev_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dbg_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dev_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dbg_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dev_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dbg_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dev_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dbg_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnutls11/libgnutls11-dev_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.