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Bug 949496 (CVE-2024-12243, GNUTLS-SA-2025-02-07) - <net-libs/gnutls-3.8.9: Denial of service
Summary: <net-libs/gnutls-3.8.9: Denial of service
Status: IN_PROGRESS
Alias: CVE-2024-12243, GNUTLS-SA-2025-02-07
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL:
Whiteboard: B3 [stable]
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Depends on: 951584
Blocks:
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Reported: 2025-02-09 04:16 UTC by Sam James
Modified: 2025-03-19 02:02 UTC (History)
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Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2025-02-09 04:16:16 UTC 
From 3.8.9 NEWS:
```
+
+** libgnutls: Fix potential DoS in handling certificates with numerous name
+   constraints, as a follow-up of CVE-2024-12133 in libtasn1. The
+   bundled copy of libtasn1 has also been updated to the latest 4.20.0
+   release to complete the fix.  Reported by Bing Shi (#1553).
+   [GNUTLS-SA-2025-02-07, CVSS: medium] [CVE-2024-12243]
+
```
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2025-02-09 04:32:34 UTC 
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=5cabc75c42d547481b636a13c560ee7262daf401

commit 5cabc75c42d547481b636a13c560ee7262daf401
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-02-09 04:23:33 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2025-02-09 04:23:33 +0000

    net-libs/gnutls: add 3.8.9
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/949496
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 net-libs/gnutls/Manifest            |   2 +
 net-libs/gnutls/gnutls-3.8.9.ebuild | 161 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 163 insertions(+)