Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting gnutls package, versions <3.6.7-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.84% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE319-GNUTLS-6106555
  • published8 Dec 2023
  • disclosed1 Apr 2019

Introduced: 1 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-3836  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-456  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.19 gnutls to version 3.6.7-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls package and not the gnutls package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.19 relevant fixed versions and status.

It was discovered in gnutls before version 3.6.7 upstream that there is an uninitialized pointer access in gnutls versions 3.6.3 or later which can be triggered by certain post-handshake messages.