Cryptographic Issues Affecting gnutls package, versions [,3.1.28)[3.2.0, 3.2.20)[3.3.0, 3.3.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.63% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUTLS-2374613
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8564  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnutls to version 3.1.28, 3.2.20, 3.3.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues. The _gnutls_ecc_ansi_x963_export function in gnutls_ecc.c in GnuTLS 3.x before 3.1.28, 3.2.x before 3.2.20, and 3.3.x before 3.3.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted (1) Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificate or (2) certificate signing requests (CSR), related to generating key IDs.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1