Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0163: gnutls (ALINUX3-SA-2025:0163)

high Nessus Plugin ID 270630

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2025:0163 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2025-32988:
A flaw was found in GnuTLS. A double-free vulnerability exists in GnuTLS due to incorrect ownership handling in the export logic of Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries containing an otherName. If the type-id OID is invalid or malformed, GnuTLS will call asn1_delete_structure() on an ASN.1 node it does not own, leading to a double-free condition when the parent function or caller later attempts to free the same structure.
This vulnerability can be triggered using only public GnuTLS APIs and may result in denial of service or memory corruption, depending on allocator behavior.

CVE-2025-32990:
A heap-buffer-overflow (off-by-one) flaw was found in the GnuTLS software in the template parsing logic within the certtool utility. When it reads certain settings from a template file, it allows an attacker to cause an out-of-bounds (OOB) NULL pointer write, resulting in memory corruption and a denial-of-service (DoS) that could potentially crash the system.

CVE-2025-6395:
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the GnuTLS software in _gnutls_figure_common_ciphersuite().

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20250163.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 270630

File Name: alinux3_sa_2025-0163.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/16/2025

Updated: 10/16/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32990

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-dane-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-utils, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-dane, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:gnutls-c%2b%2b-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-32988, CVE-2025-32990, CVE-2025-6395