Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS2023-2025-958
Advisory Released Date: 2025-05-13
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-05-13
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in GnuTLS, which relies on libtasn1 for ASN.1 data processing. Due to an inefficient algorithm in libtasn1, decoding certain DER-encoded certificate data can take excessive time, leading to increased resource consumption. This flaw allows a remote attacker to send a specially crafted certificate, causing GnuTLS to become unresponsive or slow, resulting in a denial-of-service condition. (CVE-2024-12243)
Affected Packages:
gnutls
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update gnutls --releasever 2023.7.20250428 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
gnutls-debuginfo-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
gnutls-dane-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
gnutls-c++-debuginfo-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
gnutls-utils-debuginfo-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
gnutls-c++-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
gnutls-dane-debuginfo-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
gnutls-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
gnutls-utils-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
gnutls-debugsource-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
gnutls-devel-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
src:
gnutls-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.src
x86_64:
gnutls-dane-debuginfo-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
gnutls-debuginfo-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
gnutls-c++-debuginfo-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
gnutls-dane-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
gnutls-utils-debuginfo-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
gnutls-c++-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
gnutls-utils-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
gnutls-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
gnutls-debugsource-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
gnutls-devel-3.8.3-6.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64