Summary
The remote host is missing an update to gnutls13 gnutls26 announced via advisory DSA 1935-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201935-1
Insight
Dan Kaminsky and Moxie Marlinspike discovered that gnutls, an implementation of the TLS/SSL protocol, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name or Subject Alternative Name (SAN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority. (CVE-2009-2730)
In addition, with this update, certificates with MD2 hash signatures are no longer accepted since they're no longer considered cryptograhically secure. It only affects the oldstable distribution (etch).(CVE-2009-2409)
For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.4-3+etch5 for gnutls13.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.2-6+lenny2 for gnutls26.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.3-1 for gnutls26.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnutls13/gnutls26 packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2409, CVE-2009-2730 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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