ALAS-2013-197

Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2013-197
Advisory Release Date: 2013-06-11 22:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-15 23:08 Pacific

Severity: Important

References: CVE-2013-1619 CVE-2013-2116 RHSA-2013-0883
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity

Issue Overview:

It was discovered that the fix for the CVE-2013-1619 issue introduced a regression in the way GnuTLS decrypted TLS/SSL encrypted records when CBC-mode cipher suites were used. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to crash a server or client application that uses GnuTLS. (CVE-2013-2116)

Affected Packages:

gnutls

Issue Correction:
Run yum update gnutls to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:
    gnutls-debuginfo-2.8.5-10.10.amzn1.i686
    gnutls-devel-2.8.5-10.10.amzn1.i686
    gnutls-2.8.5-10.10.amzn1.i686
    gnutls-utils-2.8.5-10.10.amzn1.i686
    gnutls-guile-2.8.5-10.10.amzn1.i686

src:
    gnutls-2.8.5-10.10.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    gnutls-2.8.5-10.10.amzn1.x86_64
    gnutls-utils-2.8.5-10.10.amzn1.x86_64
    gnutls-guile-2.8.5-10.10.amzn1.x86_64
    gnutls-debuginfo-2.8.5-10.10.amzn1.x86_64
    gnutls-devel-2.8.5-10.10.amzn1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2013-1619, CVE-2013-2116

Mitre: CVE-2013-1619, CVE-2013-2116