vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2020-11501: ELSA-2020-1998: gnutls security update (MODERATE)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 27, 2020
Added
Oct 5, 2022
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

GnuTLS 3.6.x before 3.6.13 uses incorrect cryptography for DTLS. The earliest affected version is 3.6.3 (2018-07-16) because of an error in a 2017-10-06 commit. The DTLS client always uses 32 '\0' bytes instead of a random value, and thus contributes no randomness to a DTLS negotiation. This breaks the security guarantees of the DTLS protocol.
A cryptographic weakness was found in the way DLTS implementation of GnuTLS, used zeros in place of random numbers. This flaw can break the security guarantee of the DTLS protocol.

Solutions

oracle-linux-upgrade-gnutlsoracle-linux-upgrade-gnutls-coracle-linux-upgrade-gnutls-daneoracle-linux-upgrade-gnutls-develoracle-linux-upgrade-gnutls-utils
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