# CVE-2024-12243: Gnutls: gnutls impacted by inefficient der decoding in libtasn1 leading to remote dos

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.8.8
- Published: 2025-02-10 · Updated: 2026-10-22

## Affected

- gnutls: through 3.6.16; from 3.7.0, through 3.7.11; from 3.8.0, fixed in 3.8.8
- gnutls: version range not reported
- gnutls: version range not reported
- gnutls: version range not reported
- gnutls: version range not reported
- discovery/discovery-server-rhel9: version range not reported
- discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9: version range not reported
- gnutls: version range not reported
- gnutls: version range not reported
- gnutls: version range not reported
- openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in GnuTLS, which relies on libtasn1 for ASN.1 data processing. Due to an inefficient algorithm in libtasn1, decoding certain DER-encoded certificate data can take excessive time, leading to increased resource consumption. This flaw allows a remote attacker to send a specially crafted certificate, causing GnuTLS to become unresponsive or slow, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on gnutls, discovery/discovery-server-rhel9, discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9 or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (3.8.8) per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17361
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4051
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7076
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8020
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8385
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12243
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2344615
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1553
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/libtasn1/-/issues/52

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