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SUSE: 2025:0764-1 moderate risk of gnutls DoS vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 3, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE security advisory ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0785-1 is published with moderate severity to mitigate DoS vulnerabilities in gnutls.
* bsc#1236974 Cross-References: * CVE-2024-12243

Summary

## This update for gnutls fixes the following issues: * CVE-2024-12243: quadratic complexity of DER input decoding in libtasn1 can lead to a DoS (bsc#1236974). ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-764=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-764=1 * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-764=1 ## Package List: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586) * libgnutlsxx30-3.8.3-150600.4.6.2 * gnutls-debugsource-3.8.3-150600.4.6.2 * libgnutls-devel-3.8.3-150600.4.6.2 * libgnutlsxx30-debuginfo-3.8.3-150600.4.6.2

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update software patch DoS moderate severity SUSE Linux gnutls

References

* bsc#1236974

Cross-

* CVE-2024-12243

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2024-12243 ( SUSE ): 5.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2024-12243 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

* CVE-2024-12243 ( NVD ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected Products:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12243.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1236974

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0764-1
Release Date: 2025-03-03T08:43:44Z
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update software patch DoS moderate severity SUSE Linux gnutls

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