1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3999-1

USN-3999-1: GnuTLS vulnerabilities

Publication date

30 May 2019

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in GnuTLS.

Releases

Packages

Details

Eyal Ronen, Kenneth G. Paterson, and Adi Shamir discovered that GnuTLS was
vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the “Lucky Thirteen”
issue. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform
plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-10844,
CVE-2018-10845, CVE-2018-10846)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled memory when
verifying certain X.509 certificates. A remote attacker could use this
issue to cause GnuTLS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04. (CVE-2019-3829)

It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled certain...

Eyal Ronen, Kenneth G. Paterson, and Adi Shamir discovered that GnuTLS was
vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the “Lucky Thirteen”
issue. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform
plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-10844,
CVE-2018-10845, CVE-2018-10846)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled memory when
verifying certain X.509 certificates. A remote attacker could use this
issue to cause GnuTLS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04. (CVE-2019-3829)

It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled certain post-handshake
messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause GnuTLS to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 18.10 and Ubuntu 19.04. (CVE-2019-3836)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
19.04 disco libgnutls30 –  3.6.5-2ubuntu1.1
18.10 cosmic libgnutls30 –  3.6.4-2ubuntu1.2
18.04 bionic libgnutls30 –  3.5.18-1ubuntu1.1
16.04 xenial libgnutls30 –  3.4.10-4ubuntu1.5

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