Improper Protection Against Physical Side Channels Affecting gnutls package, versions <0:3.7.6-18.el9_1
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- published 15 Feb 2023
- disclosed 14 Feb 2023
How to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:9 gnutls to version 0:3.7.6-18.el9_1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:1141.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls package and not the gnutls package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
A timing side-channel in the handling of RSA ClientKeyExchange messages was discovered in GnuTLS. This side-channel can be sufficient to recover the key encrypted in the RSA ciphertext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption the attacker would need to send a large amount of specially crafted messages to the vulnerable server. By recovering the secret from the ClientKeyExchange message, the attacker would be able to decrypt the application data exchanged over that connection.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0361
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1141
- https://github.com/tlsfuzzer/tlsfuzzer/pull/679
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1050
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00015.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UFIA3X4IZ3CW7SRQ2UHNHNPMRIAWF2FI/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WS4KVDOG6QTALWHC2QE4Y7VPDRMLTRWQ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z634YBXAJ5VLDI62IOPBVP5K6YFHAWCY/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230324-0005/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230725-0005/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UFIA3X4IZ3CW7SRQ2UHNHNPMRIAWF2FI/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WS4KVDOG6QTALWHC2QE4Y7VPDRMLTRWQ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z634YBXAJ5VLDI62IOPBVP5K6YFHAWCY/