NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libgnutls30-hmac package, versions <3.6.7-6.34.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.83% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBGNUTLS30HMAC-2700390
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed21 Oct 2020

Introduced: 21 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-24659  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 libgnutls30-hmac to version 3.6.7-6.34.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libgnutls30-hmac package and not the libgnutls30-hmac package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in GnuTLS before 3.6.15. A server can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in a TLS 1.3 client if a no_renegotiation alert is sent with unexpected timing, and then an invalid second handshake occurs. The crash happens in the application's error handling path, where the gnutls_deinit function is called after detecting a handshake failure.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1