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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-1950: GnuTLS: Execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-1950: GnuTLS: Execution of arbitrary code

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/21/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

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

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