gnutls28 — security advisory
GnuTLS 3.6.x before 3.6.13 uses incorrect cryptography for DTLS. The earliest affected version is 3.6.3 (2018-07-16) because of an error in a 2017-10-06 commit. The DTLS client always uses 32 '\0' bytes instead of a random value, and thus contributes no randomness to a DTLS negotiation. This breaks the security guarantees of the DTLS protocol.
- Products
- gnutls28
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.6.13-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-11501
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GnuTLS 3.6.x before 3.6.13 uses incorrect cryptography for DTLS. The earliest affected version is 3.6.3 (2018-07-16) because of an error in a 2017-10-06 commit. The DTLS client always uses 32 '\0' bytes instead of a random value, and thus contributes no randomness to a DTLS negotiation. This breaks the security guarantees of the DTLS protocol.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11501
gnutls28
Fixed versions: 3.6.13-2
gnutls28
Fixed versions: 3.6.13-2
gnutls28
Fixed versions: 3.6.13-2
Complete source record
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