Out-of-bounds Write Affecting gnutls-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-GNUTLSDEVEL-1987641
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7869  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:6 gnutls-devel.

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 Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdk_pkt_read function in opencdk/read-packet.c. This issue (which is a subset of the vendor's GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 report) is fixed in 3.5.10.