Access Restriction Bypass Affecting gnutls package, versions <0:3.3.26-9.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-GNUTLS-2518442
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed27 Sept 2016

Introduced: 27 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7444  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 gnutls to version 0:3.3.26-9.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2017-2292.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls package and not the gnutls package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The gnutls_ocsp_resp_check_crt function in lib/x509/ocsp.c in GnuTLS before 3.4.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4 does not verify the serial length of an OCSP response, which might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended certificate validation mechanism via vectors involving trailing bytes left by gnutls_malloc.