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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-0215

NIXPKGS-2026-0215
published 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Permalink CVE-2025-14831
5.3 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): None (N)
  • Integrity (I): None (N)
  • Availability (A): Low (L)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
  • Modified Availability (MA): Low (L)
updated 6 months, 2 weeks ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
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    • python312Packages.python3-gnutls
    • python313Packages.python3-gnutls
    • python314Packages.python3-gnutls
    • guile-gnutls
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    • @charlieshanley
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Gnutls: gnutls: denial of service via excessive resource consumption during certificate verification

A flaw was found in GnuTLS. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (DoS) by excessive CPU (Central Processing Unit) and memory consumption via specially crafted malicious certificates containing a large number of name constraints and subject alternative names (SANs).

References

Affected products

rhcos
gnutls

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.gnutls

GNU Transport Layer Security Library

  • nixos-unstable -
Ignored packages (4)

pkgs.guile-gnutls

Guile bindings for GnuTLS library

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixpkgs-unstable 5.0.1
    • nixos-unstable-small 5.0.1

Package maintainers

Ignored maintainers (1)
Upstream patch: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/d6054f0016db05fb5c82177ddbd0a4e8331059a1

Fixed in 3.8.12
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/blob/3.8.12/NEWS?ref_type=tags