CVE-2004-2531
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8
7.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
X.509 Certificate Signature Verification in Gnu transport layer security library (GnuTLS) 1.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via certificates containing long chains and signed with large RSA keys.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://secunia.com/advisories/12156 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/12156Patch
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1010838Patch
- http://www.hornik.sk/SA/SA-20040802.txtPatch
- http://www.osvdb.org/8278Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10839Patch
- http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2004-August/000703.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16858