RHEL 8 : gnutls and libtasn1 (RHSA-2026:30849)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:30849 advisory. The gnutls packages provide the GNU Transport Layer Security GnuTLS library, which implements cryptographic algorithms and protocols such a...

Medium: gnutls

Issue Overview: 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...