CVE-2026-42009

high

Description

A flaw was found in gnutls. A remote attacker could exploit an issue in the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) packet reordering logic. The comparator function, responsible for ordering DTLS packets by sequence numbers, did not correctly handle packets with duplicate sequence numbers. This could lead to unstable packet ordering or undefined behavior, resulting in a denial of service.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467279

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42009

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82888

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82857

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82372

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82354

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82347

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82322

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82304

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74674

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72502

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65839

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60019

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:59831

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:58981

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57483

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56911

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56853

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56786

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41921

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:40762

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36006

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36005

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36004

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34788

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34764

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34372

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33125

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:32962

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30850

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30849

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30004

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29794

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29197

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26409

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26319

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20613

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20612

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20611

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13274

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-18

Updated: 2026-10-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01129