Improper Protection Against Physical Side Channels Affecting gnutls package, versions <0:3.7.6-21.el9_2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL9-GNUTLS-6193017
  • published 26 Jan 2024
  • disclosed 15 Nov 2023

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 gnutls to version 0:3.7.6-21.el9_2.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:0451.

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 vulnerability was found that the response times to malformed ciphertexts in RSA-PSK ClientKeyExchange differ from response times of ciphertexts with correct PKCS#1 v1.5 padding.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

5.9 medium
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SUSE

5.9 medium