RockyLinux 8 : gnutls (RLSA-2025:4051)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 243139

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Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:4051 advisory.

* gnutls: GnuTLS Impacted by Inefficient DER Decoding in libtasn1 Leading to Remote DoS (CVE-2024-12243)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 243139

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-4051.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/30/2025

Updated: 7/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12243

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:gnutls-dane, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:gnutls-utils, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:gnutls-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:gnutls-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:gnutls-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:gnutls-dane-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:gnutls-debugsource, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:gnutls-c%2b%2b-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12243

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