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GnuTLS Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA30287
Release Date: 2008-05-21
Last Update: 2008-06-02
Popularity: 4,379 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:GnuTLS 1.x
GnuTLS 2.x

Binary Analysis: BA397 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in GnuTLS, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to potentially compromise an application using the library.

1) A boundary error exists in the processing "Client Hello" messages containing a "Server Name" extension. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted TLS packet.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

2) A NULL-pointer dereference error in the processing of TLS packets containing multiple "Client Hello" messages can be exploited to crash an affected application.

3) A signedness error exists within the "_gnutls_ciphertext2compressed()" function in lib/gnutls_cipher.c. This can be exploited to cause an out of bounds read and crash an affected application via specially crafted, encrypted TLS data.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.2.4.

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