CVE-2015-6251
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 3.3.17-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 3.3.17-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 3.3.17-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 3.3.17-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 3.3.17-1 |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.0 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.1 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.2 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.3 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.4 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.5 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.6 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.7 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.8 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.9 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.10 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.11 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.12 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.13 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.14 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.15 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.3.16 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.4.0 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.4.1 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.4.2 | |
| gnu | gnutls | 3.4.3 | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165286.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00001.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3334
- http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2015-3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/10/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76267
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033226
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251902
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/272854367efc130fbd4f1a51840d80c630214e12
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-6251
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.