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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-7869: Moderate: gnutls security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2017:2292)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-7869: Moderate: gnutls security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2017:2292)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/14/2017
Created
08/29/2019
Added
08/28/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdk_pkt_read function in opencdk/read-packet.c. This issue (which is a subset of the vendor's GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 report) is fixed in 3.5.10.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-gnutls
  • centos-upgrade-gnutls-c
  • centos-upgrade-gnutls-dane
  • centos-upgrade-gnutls-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-gnutls-devel
  • centos-upgrade-gnutls-utils

References

  • 97040
  • CVE-2017-7869
  • RHSA-2017:2292

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