Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : GnuTLS vulnerability (USN-7281-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7281-1 advisory. Bing Shi discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled decoding certain DER-encoded certificates. A remote attacker could possibly us...

USN-7281-1: GnuTLS vulnerability

Bing Shi discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled decoding certain DER-encoded certificates. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GnuTLS to consume resources, leading to a denial of service...

AZL-56752 CVE-2024-12243 affecting package gnutls for versions less than 3.7.11-3

A flaw was found in GnuTLS, which relies on libtasn1 for ASN.1 data processing. Due to an inefficient algorithm in libtasn1, decoding certain DER-encoded certificate data can take excessive time, leading to increased resource consumption. This flaw allows a remote attacker to send a specially...