Security restrictions bypass in Gnu - CVE-2016-7444

 

Security restrictions bypass in Gnu - CVE-2016-7444

Published: August 2, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7655
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7444
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
Gnu

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of the serial length of an OCSP response by the gnutls_ocsp_resp_check_crt function in the lib/x509/ocsp.c code. A remote attacker can bypass certificate validation and conduct further attacks.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-7444

Update to version 3.4.15 or 3.5.4.

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