Bug 2423177 (CVE-2025-14831) - CVE-2025-14831 gnutls: GnuTLS: Denial of Service via excessive resource consumption during certificate verification
Summary: CVE-2025-14831 gnutls: GnuTLS: Denial of Service via excessive resource consu...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-14831
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Depends On: 2437986 2437987
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Reported: 2025-12-17 14:52 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-02-09 14:34 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-17 14:52:47 UTC
Verifying Certificates with large amout of name constraints and subject alternative names makes GnuTLS vulnerable to DoS attacks

When trying to verify a certificate chain using the certtool --verify command, with certificates, that contain a larger number of SANs and Name Constraints, GnuTLS tries to verify all of them, without any bound on the quantity of those fields.
Using those crafted malicious certificate, GnuTLS is vulnerable to DoS attacks by excessive usage of CPU and memory.


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