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ALSA-2021:4451 Not scored

Moderate: gnutls and nettle security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The gnutls packages provide the GNU Transport Layer Security (GnuTLS) library, which implements cryptographic algorithms and protocols such as SSL, TLS, and DTLS. Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in almost any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages, such as C++, Python, or Pike, in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: gnutls (3.6.16). (BZ#1956783) Security Fix(es): * nettle: Remote crash in RSA decryption via manipulated ciphertext (CVE-2021-3580) * gnutls: Use after free in client key_share extension (CVE-2021-20231) * gnutls: Use after free in client_send_params in lib/ext/pre_shared_key.c (CVE-2021-20232) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published November 9, 2021
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 gnutls
AlmaLinux:8 gnutls-c++
AlmaLinux:8 gnutls-dane
AlmaLinux:8 gnutls-devel
AlmaLinux:8 gnutls-utils
AlmaLinux:8 nettle
AlmaLinux:8 nettle-devel

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2021:4451

The gnutls packages provide the GNU Transport Layer Security (GnuTLS) library, which implements cryptographic algorithms and protocols such as SSL, TLS, and DTLS. Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in almost any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages, such as C++, Python, or Pike, in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: gnutls (3.6.16). (BZ#1956783) Security Fix(es): * nettle: Remote crash in RSA decryption via manipulated ciphertext (CVE-2021-3580) * gnutls: Use after free in client key_share extension (CVE-2021-20231) * gnutls: Use after free in client_send_params in lib/ext/pre_shared_key.c (CVE-2021-20232) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence