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High · 7.5 CVE-2023-25824 EUVD-2023-29714

mod_gnutls contains Infinite Loop on request read timeout

Published Feb 23, 2023 · Updated Mar 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Mod_gnutls is a TLS module for Apache HTTPD based on GnuTLS. Versions from 0.9.0 to 0.12.0 (including) did not properly fail blocking read operations on TLS connections when the transport hit timeouts. Instead it entered an endless loop retrying the read operation, consuming CPU resources. This could be exploited for denial of service attacks. If trace level logging was enabled, it would also produce an excessive amount of log output during the loop, consuming disk space. The problem has been fixed in commit d7eec4e598158ab6a98bf505354e84352f9715ec, please update to version 0.12.1. There are no workarounds, users who cannot update should apply the errno fix detailed in the security advisory.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
airtower-luna mod_gnutls >= 0.9.0, < 0.12.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS mod-gnutls No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS mod-gnutls No fix yet —

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