Input validation error in GnuTLS - CVE-2014-3465
Published: June 10, 2014 / Updated: May 27, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41563
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3465
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted X.509 certificate, related to a missing LDAP description for an OID when printing the DN.
Affected software
GnuTLS
Gentoo Linux
Slackware Linux
Gentoo Linux
Slackware Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3465
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2014-January/003326.html
- http://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2014-January/003327.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-06/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-06/msg00010.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0684.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59086
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101734
- https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/d3648ebb04b650e6d20a2ec1fb839256b30b9fc6