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gnutls28 — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0361

A timing side-channel in the handling of RSA ClientKeyExchange messages was discovered in GnuTLS. This side-channel can be sufficient to recover the key encrypted in the RSA ciphertext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption the attacker would need to send a large amount of specially crafted messages to the vulnerable server. By recovering the secret from the ClientKeyExchange message, the attacker would be able to decrypt the application data exchanged over that connection.

Products
gnutls28
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
3.7.8-5
CVEs
CVE-2023-0361
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 15:18 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0361

core-osv · Original source

Published 15 Feb 2023, 18:15 UTC

A timing side-channel in the handling of RSA ClientKeyExchange messages was discovered in GnuTLS. This side-channel can be sufficient to recover the key encrypted in the RSA ciphertext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption the attacker would need to send a large amount of specially crafted messages to the vulnerable server. By recovering the secret from the ClientKeyExchange message, the attacker would be able to decrypt the application data exchanged over that connection.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0361

gnutls28

Fixed versions: 3.7.8-5

gnutls28

Fixed versions: 3.7.8-5

gnutls28

Fixed versions: 3.7.8-5

Complete source record
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