Homepage
About Snyk

Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting gnutls package, versions <0:3.6.8-8.el8

Severity

 Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.74% (89th percentile)

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 ID SNYK-ORACLE8-GNUTLS-2542131
  • published 10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 1 Apr 2019
Report a new vulnerability Found a mistake?

Introduced: 1 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-3836 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-824 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 gnutls to version 0:3.6.8-8.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2019-3600.

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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.