systemd — security advisory
systemd 239 through 245 accepts any certificate signed by a trusted certificate authority for DNS Over TLS. Server Name Indication (SNI) is not sent, and there is no hostname validation with the GnuTLS backend. NOTE: This has been disputed by the developer as not a vulnerability since hostname validation does not have anything to do with this issue (i.e. there is no hostname to be sent)
- Products
- systemd
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 244-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-21029
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
systemd 239 through 245 accepts any certificate signed by a trusted certificate authority for DNS Over TLS. Server Name Indication (SNI) is not sent, and there is no hostname validation with the GnuTLS backend. NOTE: This has been disputed by the developer as not a vulnerability since hostname validation does not have anything to do with this issue (i.e. there is no hostname to be sent)
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-21029
systemd
Fixed versions: 244-1
systemd
Fixed versions: 244-1
systemd
Fixed versions: 244-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 420390,
"published_at": "2019-10-30T22:15:10.667+00:00"
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