Bug#1061045: gnutls28: CVE-2024-0567

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: gnutls28
Version: 3.8.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1521
X-Debbugs-Cc: car...@debian.org, Debian Security Team <te...@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for gnutls28.

CVE-2024-0567[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-0567
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0567
[1] https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1521
[2] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2024-January/004841.html

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

[Andreas Metzler]

Hello,

do you plan/would you rather fix these two issues (CVE-2024-0567 and
CVE-2024-0553) by DSA or should I go for a (old)stable update?

TIA, cu Andreas
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[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 01:28:33PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> do you plan/would you rather fix these two issues (CVE-2024-0567 and
> CVE-2024-0553) by DSA or should I go for a (old)stable update?

IMHO they can go as well via the point releases (which should be,
though yet not officially announced) around the 10th of february.

Or is there anything I potentially miss that they warrant a DSA?

Regards,
Salvatore