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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-1948: GnuTLS: Execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-1948: GnuTLS: Execution of arbitrary code

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/21/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The _gnutls_server_name_recv_params function in lib/ext_server_name.c in libgnutls in gnutls-serv in GnuTLS before 2.2.4 does not properly calculate the number of Server Names in a TLS 1.0 Client Hello message during extension handling, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a zero value for the length of Server Names, which leads to a buffer overflow in session resumption data in the pack_security_parameters function, aka GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-1.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-gnutls

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