Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3334-1 gnutls28 -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 12 Aug 2015
- Affected Packages:
- gnutls28
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 795068.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-6251. - More information:
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Kurt Roeckx discovered that decoding a specific certificate with very long DistinguishedName (DN) entries leads to double free. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw by creating a specially crafted certificate that, when processed by an application compiled against GnuTLS, could cause the application to crash resulting in a denial of service.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.8-6+deb8u2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.17-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnutls28 packages.