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Medium ALSA-2021:4451 3 CVEs

Moderate: gnutls and nettle security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Nov 9, 2021 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The gnutls packages provide the GNU Transport Layer Security (GnuTLS) library, which implements cryptographic algorithms and protocols such as SSL, TLS, and DTLS.

Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in almost any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages, such as C++, Python, or Pike, in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: gnutls (3.6.16). (BZ#1956783)

Security Fix(es):

* nettle: Remote crash in RSA decryption via manipulated ciphertext (CVE-2021-3580)

* gnutls: Use after free in client key_share extension (CVE-2021-20231)

* gnutls: Use after free in client_send_params in lib/ext/pre_shared_key.c (CVE-2021-20232)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 gnutls 3.6.16-4.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 gnutls-c++ 3.6.16-4.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 gnutls-dane 3.6.16-4.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 gnutls-devel 3.6.16-4.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 gnutls-utils 3.6.16-4.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 nettle 3.4.1-7.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 nettle-devel 3.4.1-7.el8

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1776250
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1908110
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1908334
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1922275
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1922276
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1965445
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1967983
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-4451.html
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-20231
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-20232
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-3580