Use After Free Affecting gnutls package, versions <0:3.6.8-8.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
58.97% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GNUTLS-3600634
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed27 Mar 2019

Introduced: 27 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-3829  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 gnutls to version 0:3.6.8-8.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A vulnerability was found in gnutls versions from 3.5.8 before 3.6.7. A memory corruption (double free) vulnerability in the certificate verification API. Any client or server application that verifies X.509 certificates with GnuTLS 3.5.8 or later is affected.