Bug 2258544 (CVE-2024-0567)

Summary: CVE-2024-0567 gnutls: rejects certificate chain with distributed trust
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: TEJ RATHI <trathi>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: mpitt, saroy, security-response-team
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Fixed In Version: GnuTLS 3.8.3 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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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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Bug Depends On: 2258575, 2258576    
Bug Blocks: 2258549    

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