CVE-2015-6251

Double free vulnerability in GnuTLS before 3.3.17 and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long DistinguishedName (DN) entry in a certificate.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2015-08-24

Last modified

2024-08-06

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Gnutls (Gnu)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165286.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00001.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3334
• http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2015-3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/10/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76267
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033226
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251902
• https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/272854367efc130fbd4f1a51840d80c630214e12