RHSA-2021:1246 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: gnutls and nettle security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · April 19, 2021
Updated · August 7, 2026
Topic
An update for gnutls and nettle is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The gnutls packages provide the GNU Transport Layer Security (GnuTLS) library, which implements cryptographic algorithms and protocols such as SSL, TLS, and DTLS.
Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in almost any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages, such as C++, Python, or Pike, in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space.
Security Fix(es):
- nettle: Out of bounds memory access in signature verification (CVE-2021-20305)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.