Bug 2258544 (CVE-2024-0567) - CVE-2024-0567 gnutls: rejects certificate chain with distributed trust
Summary: CVE-2024-0567 gnutls: rejects certificate chain with distributed trust
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-0567
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2258575 2258576
Blocks: 2258549
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Reported: 2024-01-16 05:34 UTC by TEJ RATHI
Modified: 2024-03-26 13:30 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: GnuTLS 3.8.3
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A vulnerability was found in GnuTLS, where a cockpit (which uses gnuTLS) rejects a certificate chain with distributed trust. This issue occurs when validating a certificate chain with cockpit-certificate-ensure. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote client or attacker to initiate a denial of service attack.
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:0533 0 None None None 2024-01-29 01:17:06 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:1082 0 None None None 2024-03-05 08:16:42 UTC

Description TEJ RATHI 2024-01-16 05:34:52 UTC 
Cockpit (which uses gnuTLS) rejects certificate chain with distributed trust.

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1521
Comment 3 Sandipan Roy 2024-01-16 11:13:09 UTC 
Created cockpit tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2258575]


Created gnutls tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2258576]
Comment 4 Martin Pitt 2024-01-17 02:30:26 UTC 
Sandipan, what do you want Cockpit to do about this? This was a bug in GnuTLS, and there's a fix. Applying it to Fedora's and RHEL's gnutls packages should suffice to close this issue.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2024-01-29 01:17:05 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:0533 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0533
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2024-03-05 08:16:42 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:1082 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1082
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