openEuler 22.03 LTS SP4 update for gnutls

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU104044

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-12243

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to libtasn1 does not properly control consumption of internal resources when decoding certain DER-encoded certificate data. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's repository.

Vulnerable software versions

openEuler: 22.03 LTS SP4

gnutls-help: before 3.7.2-16

gnutls-utils: before 3.7.2-16

gnutls-devel: before 3.7.2-16

gnutls-debugsource: before 3.7.2-16

gnutls-debuginfo: before 3.7.2-16

gnutls: before 3.7.2-16

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:o:openeuler:openeuler:22.03:LTS SP4:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:openeuler:gnutls-help:*:*:*:*:*:openeuler:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:openeuler:gnutls-utils:*:*:*:*:*:openeuler:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:openeuler:gnutls-devel:*:*:*:*:*:openeuler:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:openeuler:gnutls-debugsource:*:*:*:*:*:openeuler:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:openeuler:gnutls-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:openeuler:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:openeuler:gnutls:*:*:*:*:*:openeuler:*:*

External links

https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2025-1175

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.