Use After Free Affecting gnutls-dane package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
18.17% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GNUTLSDANE-1338505
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed10 Aug 2015

Introduced: 10 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-6251  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 gnutls-dane.

NVD Description

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

Double free vulnerability in GnuTLS before 3.3.17 and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long DistinguishedName (DN) entry in a certificate.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1