Out-of-bounds Read Affecting gnutls-devel package, versions <0:2.12.23-21.18.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.16% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-GNUTLSDEVEL-1705391
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed24 Mar 2017

Introduced: 24 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-5335  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 gnutls-devel to version 0:2.12.23-21.18.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2017-815.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls-devel package and not the gnutls-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

The stream reading functions in lib/opencdk/read-packet.c in GnuTLS before 3.3.26 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-memory error and crash) via a crafted OpenPGP certificate.