| Name | CVE-2024-28835 |
| Description | A flaw has been discovered in GnuTLS where an application crash can be induced when attempting to verify a specially crafted .pem bundle using the "certtool --verify-chain" command. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1067463 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| gnutls28 (PTS) | buster | 3.6.7-4+deb10u8 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 3.6.7-4+deb10u12 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.7.1-5+deb11u4 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 3.7.1-5+deb11u3 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 3.7.9-2+deb12u2 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 3.8.5-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| gnutls28 | source | experimental | 3.8.4-1 | | | |
| gnutls28 | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| gnutls28 | source | (unstable) | 3.8.4-2 | | | 1067463 |
Notes
[bookworm] - gnutls28 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - gnutls28 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - gnutls28 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269084
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1525
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1527
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2024-March/004845.html
https://www.gnutls.org/security-new.html#GNUTLS-SA-2024-01-23
Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/e369e67a62f44561d417cb233acc566cc696d82d (3.8.4)
Introduced with: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/d268f19510a95f92d11d8f8dc7d94fcae4d765cc (3.7.0)