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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-0215

NIXPKGS-2026-0215
published 4 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 4 months, 2 weeks ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
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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

Ignored packages (4)

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