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.