CVE-2015-6251 (GCVE-0-2015-6251)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-08-24 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 07:15
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Double free vulnerability in GnuTLS before 3.3.17 and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long DistinguishedName (DN) entry in a certificate.
References
secalert@redhat.com http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165286.html
secalert@redhat.com http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00001.html
secalert@redhat.com http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3334
secalert@redhat.com http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2015-3 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/10/1
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/6
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76267
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033226
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251902
secalert@redhat.com https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/272854367efc130fbd4f1a51840d80c630214e12
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165286.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00001.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3334
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2015-3 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/10/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76267
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033226
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251902
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/272854367efc130fbd4f1a51840d80c630214e12
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