CVE-2006-7239

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The _gnutls_x509_oid2mac_algorithm function in lib/gnutls_algorithms.c in GnuTLS before 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted X.509 certificate that uses a hash algorithm that is not supported by GnuTLS, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

The _gnutls_x509_oid2mac_algorithm function in lib/gnutls_algorithms.c in GnuTLS before 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted X.509 certificate that uses a hash algorithm that is not supported by GnuTLS, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 14 years ago

2010-05-24 19:30:00

Last updated 14 years ago

2010-05-25 04:00:00

Affected Software

GNU GnuTLS 1.0.16

1.0.16

GNU GnuTLS 1.0.17

1.0.17

GNU GnuTLS 1.0.18

1.0.18

GNU GnuTLS 1.0.19

1.0.19

GNU GnuTLS 1.0.20

1.0.20

GNU GnuTLS 1.0.21

1.0.21

GNU GnuTLS 1.0.22

1.0.22

GNU GnuTLS 1.0.23

1.0.23

GNU GnuTLS 1.0.24

1.0.24

GNU GnuTLS 1.0.25

1.0.25

GNU GnuTLS 1.1.13

1.1.13

GNU GnuTLS 1.1.14

1.1.14

GNU GnuTLS 1.1.15

1.1.15

GNU GnuTLS 1.1.16

1.1.16

GNU GnuTLS 1.1.17

1.1.17

GNU GnuTLS 1.1.18

1.1.18

GNU GnuTLS 1.1.19

1.1.19

GNU GnuTLS 1.1.20

1.1.20

GNU GnuTLS 1.1.21

1.1.21

GNU GnuTLS 1.1.22

1.1.22

GNU GnuTLS 1.1.23

1.1.23

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.0

1.2.0

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.1

1.2.1

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.2

1.2.2

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.3

1.2.3

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.4

1.2.4

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.5

1.2.5

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.6

1.2.6

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.7

1.2.7

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.8

1.2.8

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.8.1a1

1.2.8.1a1

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.9

1.2.9

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.10

1.2.10

GNU GnuTLS 1.2.11

1.2.11

GNU GnuTLS 1.3.0

1.3.0

GNU GnuTLS 1.3.1

1.3.1

GNU GnuTLS 1.3.2

1.3.2

GNU GnuTLS 1.3.3

1.3.3

GNU GnuTLS 1.3.4

1.3.4

GNU GnuTLS 1.3.5

1.3.5

GNU GnuTLS 1.4.0

1.4.0

GNU GnuTLS

References

[gnutls-dev] 20060812 Re: [Fwd: crash in GNUTLS-1.4.0]

[gnutls-dev] 20060812 GnuTLS 1.4.2

Patch

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html

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