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Out-of-bounds Write Affecting gnutls28 package, versions <3.3.8-6+deb8u5

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.54% (77th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
8.1 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-GNUTLS28-340701
  • published 14 Apr 2017
  • disclosed 14 Apr 2017
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Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7869 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-787 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 gnutls28 to version 3.3.8-6+deb8u5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls28 package and not the gnutls28 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.