RHSA-2024:1784 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for gnutls is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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 package provide the GNU Transport Layer Security (GnuTLS) library,
which implements cryptographic algorithms and protocols such as SSL, TLS, and
DTLS.

This package update fixes a timing side-channel in deterministic ECDSA.

Security Fix(es):

• gnutls: vulnerable to Minerva side-channel information leak (CVE-2024-28834)

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.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

CVEs

• CVE-2024-28834

References

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