Access Restriction Bypass Affecting gnutls28 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.75% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-GNUTLS28-340718
  • published27 Sept 2016
  • disclosed27 Sept 2016

Introduced: 27 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7444  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:14.04 gnutls28.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls28 package and not the gnutls28 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

The gnutls_ocsp_resp_check_crt function in lib/x509/ocsp.c in GnuTLS before 3.4.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4 does not verify the serial length of an OCSP response, which might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended certificate validation mechanism via vectors involving trailing bytes left by gnutls_malloc.