Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting gnutls-dane package, versions <0:3.1.18-10.el7_0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.63% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GNUTLSDANE-4960375
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed10 Nov 2014

Introduced: 10 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8564  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 gnutls-dane to version 0:3.1.18-10.el7_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2014:1846.

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.

The _gnutls_ecc_ansi_x963_export function in gnutls_ecc.c in GnuTLS 3.x before 3.1.28, 3.2.x before 3.2.20, and 3.3.x before 3.3.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted (1) Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificate or (2) certificate signing requests (CSR), related to generating key IDs.

CVSS Scores

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