Out-of-bounds Write 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
0.54% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GNUTLSDANE-5188397
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7869  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (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 before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdk_pkt_read function in opencdk/read-packet.c. This issue (which is a subset of the vendor's GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 report) is fixed in 3.5.10.