Access of Uninitialized Pointer The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnutls (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
Do your applications use this vulnerable package?
In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.
Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-GNUTLS-5846726
- published21 Aug 2023
- disclosed1 Apr 2019
Introduced: 1 Apr 2019
CVE-2019-3836 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Chainguard security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Chainguard:latest.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls package and not the gnutls package as distributed by Chainguard.
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.
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3ETBUFBB4G7AITAOUYPGXVMBGVXKUAN/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00017.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3600
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3836
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/704
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3ETBUFBB4G7AITAOUYPGXVMBGVXKUAN/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-14
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0005/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3999-1/