USN-3999-1: GnuTLS vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• gnutls28 - GNU TLS library

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 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

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

Ubuntu 19.04

• libgnutls30 - 3.6.5-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.10

• libgnutls30 - 3.6.4-2ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 18.04

• libgnutls30 - 3.5.18-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• libgnutls30 - 3.4.10-4ubuntu1.5

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

References

• CVE-2018-10844
• CVE-2018-10845
• CVE-2018-10846
• CVE-2019-3829
• CVE-2019-3836