vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-7507: GnuTLS: Denial of service

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 16, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

GnuTLS version 3.5.12 and earlier is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference while decoding a status response TLS extension with valid contents. This could lead to a crash of the GnuTLS server application.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-gnutls
Title
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