NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting gnutls-dane package, versions <0:3.3.26-9.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.57% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GNUTLSDANE-4721174
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed7 Jun 2017

Introduced: 7 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-7507  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

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.

GnuTLS version 3.5.12 and earlier is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference while decoding a status response TLS extension with valid contents. This could lead to a crash of the GnuTLS server application.