RHSA-2023:1141 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for gnutls is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2144537 - In FIPS mode, gnutls should reject RSASSA-PSS salt lengths larger than the output size of the hash function used, or provide an indicator [rhel-9.1.0.z]
• BZ - 2149640 - dracut-cmdline[554]: Error in GnuTLS initialization: Error while performing self checks i FIPS mode [rhel-9.1.0.z]
• BZ - 2162596 - CVE-2023-0361 gnutls: timing side-channel in the TLS RSA key exchange code

CVEs

• CVE-2023-0361

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate