Undefined Behavior for Input to API Affecting gnutls28 package, versions <3.8.13-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.34% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-GNUTLS28-16344346
  • published2 May 2026
  • disclosed18 May 2026

Introduced: 2 May 2026

CVE-2026-42009  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-475  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable gnutls28 to version 3.8.13-1 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in gnutls. A remote attacker could exploit an issue in the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) packet reordering logic. The comparator function, responsible for ordering DTLS packets by sequence numbers, did not correctly handle packets with duplicate sequence numbers. This could lead to unstable packet ordering or undefined behavior, resulting in a denial of service.

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CVSS Base Scores

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