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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-1415: GnuTLS: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-1415: GnuTLS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/30/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

lib/pk-libgcrypt.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.6.6 does not properly handle invalid DSA signatures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed DSA key that triggers a (1) free of an uninitialized pointer or (2) double free.

Solution(s)

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

References

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