Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting gnutls package, versions [,3.8.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUTLS-10735622
  • published14 Jul 2025
  • disclosed9 Jul 2025
  • creditDavid Aitel

Introduced: 9 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-32990  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnutls to version 3.8.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow in the template parsing process within the certtool utility. An attacker can cause memory corruption and potentially crash the system by providing a specially crafted template file that triggers an out-of-bounds NULL pointer write.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1