ELA-1653-1 gnutls28 security update

denial of service vulnerabilities

2026-02-27
Packagegnutls28
Version3.5.8-5+deb9u10 (stretch), 3.6.7-4+deb10u15 (buster)
Related CVEs CVE-2025-9820 CVE-2025-14831


Vulnerabilities were found in GnuTLS, a portable library which implements the Transport Layer Security and Datagram Transport Layer Security protocols, which may lead to Denial of Service.

CVE-2025-9820

An out-of-bound write issue was discovered when a PKCS#11 token is initialized with the gnutls_pkcs11_token_init() function and it is passed a token label longer than 32 characters.

CVE-2025-14831

Tim Scheckenbach discovered that verifying specially crafted malicious certificates containing a large number of name constraints and subject alternative names (SANs) could lead to resource exhaustion.



For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.7-4+deb10u15.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 3.5.8-5+deb9u10.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnutls28 packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.