PT-2010-1227 · Gnu · Gnutls

Satyakumar · Published 2010-05-24 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2006-7239

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GnuTLS versions prior to 1.4.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted X.509 certificate that uses a hash algorithm not supported by GnuTLS, triggering a NULL pointer dereference in the gnutls x509 oid2mac algorithm function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.4.2, update to version 1.4.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-310

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-7239

Affected Products

Gnutls

References · 4

• http://gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2006-August/001192.html · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7239 · Security Note
• http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2006-August/001190.html · Note