Vulnerability in Gnu Gnutls

CVE-2006-7239

The _gnutls_x509_oid2mac_algorithm function in lib/gnutls_algorithms.c in GnuTLS before 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted X.509 certificate that uses a hash algorithm that is not supported by GnuTLS, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)

EPSS: 0.015 (72.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Gnu Gnutls — versions 1.3.2, 1.3.1, 1.2.5
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-310 — Cryptographic Issues

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)