Overview
A vulnerability exists in GnuTLS that may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
Description
GnuTLS contains a vulnerability in gnults-serv that may result in a denial of service when handling a specially crafted TLS packet that contains multiple Client Hello messages. According to CERT-FI Vulnerability Advisory on GnuTLS: The program reads the first Client Hello and then proceeds to send Server Hello, Certificate, Certificate Request and Server Hello Done messages. After sending these, it apperently reads next Client Hello from the message sent earlier and crashes to segmentation fault caused by null pointer. Note that this issue may affect GnuTLS versions prior to 2.2.5 and also affects version 2.3.0. |
Impact
A remote, unauthorized attacker may be able to cause a denial of service. |
Solution
Upgrade or Apply Patch |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
This issue was reported in GnuTLS Security Advisory SA-2008-01. GnuTLS credits Ossi Herrala and Jukka Taimisto from the CROSS project at Codenomicon Ltd. for reporting this issue.
This document was written by Chris Taschner.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2008-1949 |
| Severity Metric: | 9.19 |
| Date Public: | 2008-05-19 |
| Date First Published: | 2008-05-29 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2008-05-29 15:45 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 15 |