Out-of-bounds Write Affecting gnutls28 package, versions <3.5.8-4
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-GNUTLS28-340703
- published14 Apr 2017
- disclosed14 Apr 2017
Introduced: 14 Apr 2017
CVE-2017-7869 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10 gnutls28 to version 3.5.8-4 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls28 package and not the gnutls28 package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:10 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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7869
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=420
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/51464af713d71802e3c6d5ac15f1a95132a354fe
- https://www.gnutls.org/security.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2292
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97040
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-7869