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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-3836: Access of Uninitialized Pointer

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-3836: Access of Uninitialized Pointer

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/01/2019
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

Description

It was discovered in gnutls before version 3.6.7 upstream that there is an uninitialized pointer access in gnutls versions 3.6.3 or later which can be triggered by certain post-handshake messages.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-gnutls

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