Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting gnutls package, versions [,3.1.16)[3.2.0, 3.2.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUTLS-2374600
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Nov 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-4487  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnutls to version 3.1.16, 3.2.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Off-by-one error in the dane_raw_tlsa in the DANE library (libdane) in GnuTLS 3.1.x before 3.1.16 and 3.2.x before 3.2.6 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a response with more than four DANE entries. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4466.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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