CVE-2008-1950
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-189
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Integer signedness error in the _gnutls_ciphertext2compressed function in lib/gnutls_cipher.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and crash) via a certain integer value in the Random field in an encrypted Client Hello message within a TLS record with an invalid Record Length, which leads to an invalid cipher padding length, aka GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-3.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00051.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00051.htmlPatch
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnutls.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bc8102405fda11ea00ca3b42acc4f4bce9d6e97b
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00055.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00060.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00003.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30287
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30302
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30317