Cryptographic Issues Affecting gnutls package, versions [,2.12.17)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
93.61% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUTLS-2374616
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Mar 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Mar 2012

CVE-2012-1573  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnutls to version 2.12.17 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues gnutls_cipher.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.12.17 and 3.x before 3.0.15 does not properly handle data encrypted with a block cipher, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted record, as demonstrated by a crafted GenericBlockCipher structure.

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CVSS Base Scores

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