USN-6593-1: GnuTLS vulnerabilities

Isolation Segment

3 more products

24666

15 July 2024

15 July 2024

CLOSED

MEDIUM

CVE-2024-0553;CVE-2024-0567

Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

It was discovered that GnuTLS had a timing side-channel when processing malformed ciphertexts in RSA-PSK ClientKeyExchange. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to recover sensitive information. (CVE-2024-0553) It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled certain certificate chains with a cross-signing loop. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GnuTLS to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2024-0567) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6593-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libgnutls30 - 3.6.13-2ubuntu1.10 libgnutls28-dev - 3.6.13-2ubuntu1.10 libgnutlsxx28 - 3.6.13-2ubuntu1.10 gnutls-doc - 3.6.13-2ubuntu1.10 libgnutls-dane0 - 3.6.13-2ubuntu1.10 gnutls-bin - 3.6.13-2ubuntu1.10 guile-gnutls - 3.6.13-2ubuntu1.10 libgnutls-openssl27 - 3.6.13-2ubuntu1.10 No subscription required.

Fixed VMware Products and Versions

  • Cflinuxfs4
    • 1.67.0 or greater
  • Operations Manager
    • 3.0.24+LTS-T or greater
  • Jammy Stemcells
    • 1.351 or greater
  • CF Deployment
    • 30.0.0 or greater
  • Isolation Segment
    • 4.0.16+LTS-T or greater
    • 5.0.6 or greater
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 4.0.16+LTS-T or greater
    • 5.0.6 or greater

 

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6593-1

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6593-1

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=usn-6593-1

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24666

History

2024-01-22: Initial vulnerability report published.