Access of Uninitialized Pointer The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnutls28  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-GNUTLS28-611814
  • published28 Mar 2019
  • disclosed1 Apr 2019

Introduced: 28 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-3836  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (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 gnutls28 package and not the gnutls28 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

It was discovered in gnutls before version 3.6.7 upstream that there is an uninitialized pointer access in gnutls versions 3.6.3 or later which can be triggered by certain post-handshake messages.