Improper Input Validation Affecting gnutls package, versions [0,3.4.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUTLS-2374582
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Aug 2017

CVE-2016-4456  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnutls to version 3.4.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The "GNUTLS_KEYLOGFILE" environment variable in gnutls 3.4.12 allows remote attackers to overwrite and corrupt arbitrary files in the filesystem.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1