Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 764
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 764

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2020-1998-01 Moderate: GnuTLS Security Fix

red hat
Calendar Grey April 30, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A recent patch for openssl enhances protection on CentOS Stream 9, tackling a medium risk vulnerability.
An update for gnutls is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The gnutls packages provide the GNU Transport Layer Security (GnuTLS) library, which implements cryptographic algorithms and protocols such as SSL, TLS, and DTLS.
Security Fix(es):
* gnutls: DTLS client hello contains a random value of all zeroes (CVE-2020-11501)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue software update Red Hat Enterprise Linux gnutls DTLS

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-11501 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
aarch64: gnutls-c++-3.6.8-10.el8_2.aarch64.rpm gnutls-c++-debuginfo-3.6.8-10.el8_2.aarch64.rpm gnutls-dane-3.6.8-10.el8_2.aarch64.rpm gnutls-dane-debuginfo-3.6.8-10.el8_2.aarch64.rpm gnutls-debuginfo-3.6.8-10.el8_2.aarch64.rpm gnutls-debugsource-3.6.8-10.el8_2.aarch64.rpm gnutls-devel-3.6.8-10.el8_2.aarch64.rpm gnutls-utils-3.6.8-10.el8_2.aarch64.rpm gnutls-utils-debuginfo-3.6.8-10.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: gnutls-c++-3.6.8-10.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm gnutls-c++-debuginfo-3.6.8-10.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm gnutls-dane-3.6.8-10.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm gnutls-dane-debuginfo-3.6.8-10.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm gnutls-debuginfo-3.6.8-10.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm gnutls-debugsource-3.6.8-10.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm gnutls-devel-3.6.8-10.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm gnutls-utils-3.6.8-10.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm gnutls-utils-debuginfo-3.6.8-10.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: gnutls-c++-3.6.8-10.el8_2.s390x.rpm gnutls-c++-debuginfo-3.6.8-10.el8_2.s390x.rpm gnutls-dane-3.6.8-10.el8_2.s390x.rpm gnutls-dane-debuginfo-3.6.8-10.el8_2.s390x.rpm gnutls-debuginfo-3.6.8-10.el8_2.s390x.rpm gnutls-debugsource-3.6.8-10.el8_2.s390x.rpm gnutls-devel-3.6.8-10.el8_2.s390x.rpm gnutls-utils-3.6.8-10.el8_2.s390x.rpm gnutls-utils-debuginfo-3.6.8-10.el8_2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: gnutls-c++-3.6.8-10.el8_2.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1998-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1998
Issue date: 2020-04-30

Topic

An update for gnutls is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue software update Red Hat Enterprise Linux gnutls DTLS

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1821896 - CVE-2020-11501 gnutls: DTLS client hello contains a random value of all zeroes

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here