Security update for gnutls

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:0829-1
Release Date: 2026-03-05T15:17:14Z
Rating: moderate
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Cross-References:
CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2025-14831 ( SUSE ): 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • CVE-2025-14831 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
  • CVE-2025-14831 ( NVD ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP7
  • openSUSE Leap 15.6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

An update that solves one vulnerability, contains two features and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for gnutls fixes the following issues:

Security issue:

  • CVE-2025-14831: excessive resource consumption when verifying specially crafted malicious certificates containing a large number of name constraints and subject alternative names (bsc#1257960).

Other updates and bugfixes:

  • update libgnutls package to avoid binder getting calculated with SHA256 (bsc#1258083, jsc#PED-15752, jsc#PED-15753).
  • lib/psk: Add gnutls_psk_allocate_{client,server}_credentials2
  • tests/psk-file: Add testing for _credentials2 functions
  • lib/psk: add null check for binder algo
  • pre_shared_key: fix memleak when retrying with different binder algo
  • pre_shared_key: add null check on pskcred

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.6
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-829=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2026-829=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP7
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2026-829=1

Package List:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
    • libgnutlsxx-devel-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutlsxx30-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutlsxx30-debuginfo-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • gnutls-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • gnutls-debugsource-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutls-devel-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutls30-debuginfo-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • gnutls-debuginfo-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutls30-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
  • openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)
    • libgnutls30-32bit-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutls-devel-32bit-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutls30-32bit-debuginfo-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
  • openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64_ilp32)
    • libgnutls30-64bit-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutls-devel-64bit-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutls30-64bit-debuginfo-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libgnutlsxx-devel-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutlsxx30-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutlsxx30-debuginfo-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • gnutls-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • gnutls-debugsource-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutls-devel-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutls30-debuginfo-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • gnutls-debuginfo-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutls30-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (x86_64)
    • libgnutls30-32bit-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1
    • libgnutls30-32bit-debuginfo-3.8.3-150600.4.17.1

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