Summary
Hubert Kario discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled decoding a status
response TLS extension. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause GnuTLS to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-7507)
It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled decoding certain OpenPGP
certificates. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause GnuTLS to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2017-7869)
Fixed packages 2
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS | gnutls26 | 2.12.23-12ubuntu2.8 |
| Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS | gnutls28 | 3.4.10-4ubuntu1.3 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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Unscored —
GnuTLS version 3.5.12 and earlier is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference while decoding a status response TLS exte…
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Unscored —
GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow relate…