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Medium ALSA-2023:1141 1 CVE

Moderate: gnutls security and bug fix update

Published Mar 7, 2023 · 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.

Security Fix(es):

* gnutls: timing side-channel in the TLS RSA key exchange code (CVE-2023-0361)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* CCM tag length should be limited to known values (BZ#2144535)
* In FIPS mode, gnutls should reject RSASSA-PSS salt lengths larger than the output size of the hash function used, or provide an indicator (BZ#2144537)
* dracut-cmdline[554]: Error in GnuTLS initialization: Error while performing self checks i FIPS mode (BZ#2149640)

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 gnutls 3.7.6-18.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 gnutls-c++ 3.7.6-18.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 gnutls-dane 3.7.6-18.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 gnutls-devel 3.7.6-18.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 gnutls-utils 3.7.6-18.el9_1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0361
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2162596
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-1141.html