Cryptographic Issues The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnutls26  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-GNUTLS26-629337
  • published13 Nov 2014
  • disclosed13 Nov 2014

Introduced: 13 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8564  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls26 package and not the gnutls26 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.