Alpine: multiple gnutls packages: security update to 3.6.14-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400328

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- An issue was discovered in GnuTLS before 3.6.15. A server can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in a TLS
1.3 client if a no_renegotiation alert is sent with unexpected timing, and then an invalid second
handshake occurs. The crash happens in the application's error handling path, where the gnutls_deinit
function is called after detecting a handshake failure. (CVE-2020-24659)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=1c38dfeeb6062544e2c67cc32a91faf22b16ce62

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=8a4aedb380c9ad98c47f5e3f1483f9001522f094

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400328

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-24659

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-24659