Vulnerability in GNU Gnutls
CVE-2008-1950
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.050 (91.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.050 · newest: 0.050 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNU Gnutls — versions 1.0.18, 1.0.19, 1.0.20
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/30331 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/31939 (third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-613-1 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00003.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0492.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/20/1 (mailing-list)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-20.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30355 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30317 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492282/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)