Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting gnutls28 package, versions <3.6.4-2ubuntu1.2
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.35% (87th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1810-GNUTLS28-341636
- published 28 Mar 2019
- disclosed 1 Apr 2019
Introduced: 28 Mar 2019
CVE-2019-3836 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.10 gnutls28 to version 3.6.4-2ubuntu1.2 or higher.
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:18.10 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-3836
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/704
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-3836
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-3836
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3ETBUFBB4G7AITAOUYPGXVMBGVXKUAN/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-14
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0005/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00017.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3600
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3836
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3999-1/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3ETBUFBB4G7AITAOUYPGXVMBGVXKUAN/