Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.5
EPSS
0.18%
AV:N/AC:H/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
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
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
Double Free
CVSS:3.1/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
5.9
EPSS
0.06%
CVSS:3.1/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
9.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N/E:U

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/E:U/RL:O/RC:R

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
3.7
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:U

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
7.4
CVSS:3.1/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
9.1
Integer Underflow
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:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

A timing side-channel in the handling of RSA ClientKeyExchange messages was discovered in GnuTLS. This side-channel can be sufficient to recover the key encrypted in the RSA ciphertext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption the attacker would need to send a large amount of specially crafted messages to the vulnerable server. By recovering the secret from the ClientKeyExchange message, the attacker would be able to decrypt the application data exchanged over that connection.

1 / 4
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Double Free
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A vulnerability found in gnutls. This security flaw happens because of a double free error occurs during verification of pkcs7 signatures in gnutlspkcs7verify function.

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
9.8
Use After Free
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in gnutls. A use after free issue in client sending keyshare extension may lead to memory corruption and other consequences.

1 / 2
Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Use After Free
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in gnutls. A use after free issue in clientsendparams in lib/ext/presharedkey.c may lead to memory corruption and other potential consequences.

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

An issue was discovered in GnuTLS before 3.6.15. A server can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in a TLS 1.3 client if a norenegotiation alert is sent with unexpected timing, and then an invalid second handshake occurs. The crash happens in the application's error handling path, where the gnutlsdeinit function is called after detecting a handshake failure.

1 / 3
Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
7.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

GnuTLS 3.6.x before 3.6.14 uses incorrect cryptography for encrypting a session ticket (a loss of confidentiality in TLS 1.2, and an authentication bypass in TLS 1.3). The earliest affected version is 3.6.4 (2018-09-24) because of an error in a 2018-09-18 commit. Until the first key rotation, the TLS server always uses wrong data in place of an encryption key derived from an application.

1 / 3
Source: Ubuntu
First published (updated )
Severity
7.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

GnuTLS 3.6.x before 3.6.13 uses incorrect cryptography for DTLS. The earliest affected version is 3.6.3 (2018-07-16) because of an error in a 2017-10-06 commit. The DTLS client always uses 32 '\0' bytes instead of a random value, and thus contributes no randomness to a DTLS negotiation. This breaks the security guarantees of the DTLS protocol.

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
9.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Improper certificate validation in gnutls v3.8.13 causes the application to accept certificates containing invalid extensions.

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
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
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
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 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
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
5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

It was reported [1] that a version 1 intermediate certificate would be considered as a CA certificate by GnuTLS by default. This certificate verification behaviour deviates from the documented behaviour.

Upstream notes that this only affects individuals or organizations who have a CA that issues X.509 version 1 certificates in their trusted list.

This has been fixed upstream [2] in version 3.1.21 and 3.2.11.

At a quick look at the code of GnuTLS 2.8.5, it is affected. 1.4.1 looks affected to me as well.

[1] http://www.gnutls.org/security.html [2] https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/b1abfe3d18

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

It was discovered that GnuTLS X.509 certificate verification code failed to properly handle certain errors that can occur during the certificate verification. When such errors are encountered, GnuTLS would report successful verification of the certificate, even though verification should end with failure. A specially-crafted certificate can be accepted by GnuTLS as valid even if it wasn't issued by any trusted Certificate Authority. This can be used to perform man-in-the-middle attacks against applications using GnuTLS.

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Marsh Ray of PhoneFactor has discovered a flaw in the TLS/SSL protocol related to the handling of the session rehandshakes / renegotiations. This flaw can possibly be used in the MITM attacks and allowing an attacker to inject attacker-chosen plain text prefix to the session of the victim.

Further details are available in the "Authentication Gap in TLS Renegotiation" blog post: http://extendedsubset.com/?p=8

1 / 3
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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