Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
9.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

A flaw was found in gnutls. Servers configured with RSA-PSK (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman – Pre-Shared Key) wrongfully matched usernames containing a NUL character with truncated usernames. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending a specially crafted username, leading to an authentication bypass. This vulnerability allows an attacker to gain unauthorized access by circumventing the authentication process.

1 / 4
Source: Debian
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A flaw was found in gnutls. A remote attacker could exploit an issue in the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) packet reordering logic. The comparator function, responsible for ordering DTLS packets by sequence numbers, did not correctly handle packets with duplicate sequence numbers. This could lead to unstable packet ordering or undefined behavior, resulting in a denial of service.

1 / 4
Source: Debian
First published (updated )
Severity
9.1
Integer Underflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A flaw in GnuTLS DTLS handshake parsing allows malformed fragments with zero length and non-zero offset, leading to an integer underflow during reassembly and resulting in an out-of-bounds read. This issue is remotely exploitable and may cause information disclosure or denial of service.

1 / 4
Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
7.4
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

A flaw was found in gnutls. This vulnerability occurs because gnutls performs case-sensitive comparisons of nameConstraints labels, specifically for dNSName (DNS) or rfc822Name (email) constraints within excludedSubtrees or permittedSubtrees. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a leaf certificate with casing differences in the Subject Alternative Name (SAN), leading to a policy bypass where a certificate that should be rejected is instead accepted. This could result in unauthorized access or information disclosure.

1 / 3
Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
3.7
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

A flaw was found in gnutls. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by presenting a specially crafted Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) response during a TLS handshake. Due to a logic error in how gnutls processes multi-record OCSP responses, a client with OCSP verification enabled may incorrectly accept a revoked server certificate, potentially leading to a compromise of trust.

1 / 3
Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A flaw was found in gnutls. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted ClientHello message with an invalid Pre-Shared Key (PSK) binder value during the TLS handshake. This can lead to a NULL pointer dereference, causing the server to crash and resulting in a remote Denial of Service (DoS) condition.

1 / 2
Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
8.2
Double Free
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

A double-free vulnerability exists in GnuTLS (confirmed in version 3.8.9) due to incorrect ownership handling in the export logic of Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries containing an otherName. If the type-id OID is invalid or malformed, GnuTLS will call asn1deletestructure() on an ASN.1 node it does not own, leading to a double-free condition when the parent function or caller later attempts to free the same structure. This vulnerability can be triggered using only public GnuTLS APIs and may result in denial of service or memory corruption, depending on allocator behavior.

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

A heap-buffer-overread vulnerability exists in GnuTLS (confirmed in version 3.8.9) due to unsafe handling of the Certificate Transparency (CT) Signed Certificate Timestamp (SCT) extension during X.509 certificate parsing. The vulnerability can be triggered by a malicious peer presenting a crafted certificate containing a malformed SCT extension (OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.11129.2.4.2). This overread may lead to disclosure of heap memory contents to attackers if the SCT logid is logged, exported, or otherwise exposed by the application consuming the GnuTLS client library.

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
8.2
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

A heap-buffer-overflow (off-by-one) flaw was found in the GnuTLS software in the template parsing logic within the certtool utility. When it reads certain settings from a template file, it allows an attacker to cause an out-of-bounds (OOB) NULL pointer write, resulting in memory corruption and a denial-of-service (DoS) that could potentially crash the system.

1 / 2
Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
EPSS
0.08%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A vulnerability was found in GnuTLS, where a cockpit (which uses gnuTLS) rejects a certificate chain with distributed trust. This issue occurs when validating a certificate chain with cockpit-certificate-ensure. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote client or attacker to initiate a denial of service attack.

1 / 5
Source: Ubuntu
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
EPSS
0.18%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

A vulnerability was found in GnuTLS. The response times to malformed ciphertexts in RSA-PSK ClientKeyExchange differ from the response times of ciphertexts with correct PKCS#1 v1.5 padding. This issue may allow a remote attacker to perform a timing side-channel attack in the RSA-PSK key exchange, potentially leading to the leakage of sensitive data. CVE-2024-0553 is designated as an incomplete resolution for CVE-2023-5981.

1 / 6
Source: NVD
First published (updated )
Severity
5.9
EPSS
0.06%
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

A vulnerability was found that the response times to malformed ciphertexts in RSA-PSK ClientKeyExchange differ from response times of ciphertexts with correct PKCS#1 v1.5 padding.

1 / 5
Source: Ubuntu
First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in GnuTLS. As Nettle's hash update functions internally call memcpy, providing zero-length input may cause undefined behavior. This flaw leads to a denial of service after authentication in rare circumstances.

1 / 2
Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

GnuTLS incorrectly validates the first byte of padding in CBC modes

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

It was discovered in gnutls before version 3.6.7 upstream that there is an uninitialized pointer access in gnutls versions 3.6.3 or later which can be triggered by certain post-handshake messages.

1 / 3
Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Double Free, Use After Free
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A flaw was found in gnutls 3.5.8 or later. A use-after-free in multi-threaded-clients and a double-free vulnerability in single-threaded clients because gnutlsx509getsignature does not clear signature->data in the cleanup path.

Upstream bug: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/694

1 / 3
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
5.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found. An attacker could use a combination of "Just in Time" Prime+probe attack in combination with Lucky-13 attack to recover plain text using crafted packets.

1 / 3
Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

It was found that GnuTLS implementation of HMAC-SHA-384 was vulnerable to Lucky thirteen style attack due to use of wrong constant appropriate to hash functions that encode the length field.

1 / 3
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

It was found that GnuTLS implementation of HMAC-SHA-256 was vulnerable to Lucky thirteen style attack due to the fact that not enough dummy compression function calls are added to cater for every situation.

1 / 3
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

GnuTLS version 3.5.12 and earlier is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference while decoding a status response TLS extension with valid contents. This could lead to a crash of the GnuTLS server application.

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow, Integer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdkpktread 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.

1 / 2
Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A vulnerability was found in gnutls. A stack overflow could occur in opencdk in the cdkpkgetkeyid function. A memory corruption could occur when parsing a maliciously crafted OpenPGP certificate.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/51 https://gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2017-2

Upstream patch:

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/5140422e0d7319a8e2fe07f02cbcafc4d6538732

1 / 3
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A vulnerability was found in gnutls. There was an insufficient error checking in the stream reading functions. While parsing a maliciously crafted OpenPGP certificate an out of memory error could occur.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/51 https://gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2017-2

Upstream patch:

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/49be4f7b82eba2363bb8d4090950dad976a77a3a

1 / 3
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A vulnerability was found in gnutls. A heap read overflow could occur while parsing maliciously crafted OpenPGP certificate.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/51 https://gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2017-2

Upstream patch:

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/94fcf1645ea17223237aaf8d19132e004afddc1a

1 / 3
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Double Free
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Double free vulnerability in the gnutlsx509extimportproxy function in GnuTLS before 3.3.26 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via crafted policy language information in an X.509 certificate with a Proxy Certificate Information extension.

1 / 3
Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
5
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in libtasn1's asn1readvaluetype() / asn1readvalue() function. If an application called the function with a NULL value for an ivalue argument to determine the amount of memory needed to store data to be read from the ASN.1 input, libtasn1 could incorrectly attempt to dereference the NULL pointer, causing an application using the library to crash.

The libtasn1 library is used by the GnuTLS library to parse X.509 certificates. The gnutls packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and earlier use bundled libtasn1, packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and later depend on the library provided by a separate libtasn1 package.

Upstream commits: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/lib/element.c?id=a8b3e14f84174e01755bfd1be5448fffce7c9ffa http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/lib/element.c?id=3d6a02f19ff15a38dae9686033e37499b3968256 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/lib/element.c?id=53958290ab731c8486531a3bdef54a933533579d

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

It was discovered that libtasn1 library function asn1getbitder() could incorrectly report negative bit length of the value read from ASN.1 input. This could possibly lead to an out of bounds access in an application using libtasn1, for example in case if application tried to terminate read value with NUL byte.

The following upstream commit corrects the issue and causes the function to report error rather than return negative length value: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=1c3ccb3e040bf13e342ee60bc23b21b97b11923f

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Multiple buffer boundary check issues were discovered in libtasn1 library, causing it to read beyond the boundary of an allocated buffer. An untrusted ASN.1 input could cause an application using the library to crash.

The libtasn1 library is used by the GnuTLS library to parse X.509 certificates. The gnutls packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and earlier use bundled libtasn1, packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and later depend on the library provided by a separate libtasn1 package.

Upstream commits: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=ff3b5c68cc32e30d19edbbc3a962b2266029f3cc http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=0e80d79db71747644394fe3472dad28cd3e7b00b http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=154909136c12cfa5c60732b7210827dfb1ec6aee http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=37a16434131c6ad8745b9accefec5cecb4cbb5b7 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=cc10a8c5443c751d920cfaca1f104089e43296be http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=6fee6745b1bd1a82f16ae9b607855a3e3ab39fc6 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=af0e8cd0bacf47ecce049165d3bc1ed9e861df1c http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=609d5c1366fb424f6150c4eed358d246e61cf204 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtasn1.git/commit/?id=51612fca32dda445056ca9a7533bae258acd3ecb

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS parsed session ids from Server Hello packets of the TLS/SSL handshake. A malicious server could use this flaw to send an excessively long session id value and trigger a buffer overflow in a connecting TLS/SSL client using GnuTLS, causing it to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

The flaw is in readserverhello() / gnutlsreadserverhello(), where sessionidlen is checked to not exceed incoming packet size, but not checked to ensure it does not exceed maximum session id length: https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/source/8d7d6c6:lib/gnutlshandshake.c#L1747

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
5
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in GnuTLS's gnutlsx509dnoidname(). The function, when called with the GNUTLSX509DNOIDRETURNOID flag, should not return NULL to its caller. However, it could previously return NULL when parsed X.509 certificates included specific OIDs.

The issue was corrected upstream using the following commit: https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/d3648ebb04b650e6d20a2ec1fb839256b30b9fc6

The fix was first included in upstream versions 3.1.20 and 3.2.10: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/7251 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/7250

Affected function was introduced in GnuTLS version 3.0: http://gnutls.org/manual/htmlnode/X509-certificate-API.html#gnutls005fx509005fdn005foid005fname-1

The gnutls packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and earlier include GnuTLS versions 2.x or 1.x and were therefore not affected by this issue. The gnutls and mingw-gnutls packages in Fedora are already updated to the fixed upstream version.

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )

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