Out-of-bounds Write Affecting gnutls package, versions [,3.5.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUTLS-2374615
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7869  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnutls to version 3.5.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdk_pkt_read function in opencdk/read-packet.c. This issue (which is a subset of the vendor's GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 report) is fixed in 3.5.10.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1