Resource Exhaustion Affecting gnutls-utils package, versions <0:2.12.23-21.el6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.16% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-GNUTLSUTILS-2138102
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed10 Jan 2017

Introduced: 10 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-5335  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:6 gnutls-utils to version 0:2.12.23-21.el6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls-utils package and not the gnutls-utils package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 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.