A flaw has been discovered in GnuTLS where an application crash can be induced when attempting to verify a specially crafted .pem bundle using the certtool –verify-chain command.
Weakness
An exception is thrown from a function, but it is not caught.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | RedHat | gnutls-0:3.7.6-23.el9_3.4 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | RedHat | gnutls-0:3.8.3-4.el9_4 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | RedHat | gnutls-0:3.7.6-23.el9_3.4 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | RedHat | gnutls-0:3.8.3-4.el9_4 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support | RedHat | gnutls-0:3.7.6-21.el9_2.3 | * |
| Gnutls28 | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Gnutls28 | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Gnutls28 | Ubuntu | mantic | * |
| Gnutls28 | Ubuntu | noble | * |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1879
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2570
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2889
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-28835
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269084
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2024-March/004845.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/22/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/22/2
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1879
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2570
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2889
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-28835
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269084
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00019.html
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2024-March/004845.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241122-0009/