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Fedora 41 : gnutls (2025-814d6183dd)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 242094

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-814d6183dd advisory.

 This updates gnutls to the latest upstream release. Notable changes are:

 * PKCS#11 cryptographic provider support
 * Support for kTLS rekeying with kernel 6.14+
 * Support for the almost standardized ML-DSA private key formats

 This also fixes 4 CVEs.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected gnutls package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-814d6183dd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 242094

File Name: fedora_2025-814d6183dd.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/15/2025

Updated: 7/15/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32990

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnutls, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-32990