Executive Summary

Summary
Title Nettle vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-2897-1 First vendor Publication 2016-02-15
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-02-15
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 15.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Nettle.

Software Description: - nettle: low level cryptographic library (public-key cryptos)

Details:

Hanno Böck discovered that Nettle incorrectly handled carry propagation in the NIST P-256 elliptic curve. (CVE-2015-8803)

Hanno Böck discovered that Nettle incorrectly handled carry propagation in the NIST P-384 elliptic curve. (CVE-2015-8804)

Niels Moeller discovered that Nettle incorrectly handled carry propagation in the NIST P-256 elliptic curve. (CVE-2015-8805)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
libnettle6 3.1.1-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libnettle4 2.7.1-1ubuntu0.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2897-1
CVE-2015-8803, CVE-2015-8804, CVE-2015-8805

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nettle/3.1.1-4ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nettle/2.7.1-1ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2897-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
60 % CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues
40 % CWE-254 Security Features

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 2
Os 1
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-05-01 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2016-1061.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-15 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20161103_nettle_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-28 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-2582.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-11 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-2582.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-04 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-2582.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-d94300845b.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-89968f88d2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-8ee88aee21.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2016-aa00f0631d.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-18 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-217.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-211.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-212.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-0455-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-16 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2897-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2016-03-11 00:29:12
  • Multiple Updates
2016-03-10 05:28:32
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2016-03-09 21:29:25
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2016-03-04 21:29:39
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2016-02-24 00:28:02
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2016-02-17 13:26:47
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2016-02-15 21:29:03
  • Multiple Updates
2016-02-15 21:24:16
  • First insertion