Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201508-8
========================================
Severity: Medium
Date    : 2015-08-25
CVE-ID  : CVE-2015-6251
Package : gnutls
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
======
The package gnutls before version 3.4.4.1-1 is vulnerable to remote
denial of service.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 3.4.4.1-1.

# pacman -Syu "gnutls>=3.4.4.1-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 3.4.4 and 3.3.17.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
==========
Kurt Roeckx reported that decoding a specific certificate with very long
DistinguishedName (DN) entries leads to double free, which may result to
a denial of service. Since the DN decoding occurs in almost all
applications using certificates it is recommended to upgrade the latest
GnuTLS version fixing the issue.

Impact
=====
A remote attacker might be able to remotely crash a vulnerable
application by supplying a crafted certificate with a very long DN.

References
=========
http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2015-3
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6251

ArchLinux: 201508-8: gnutls: denial of service

August 25, 2015

Summary

Kurt Roeckx reported that decoding a specific certificate with very long DistinguishedName (DN) entries leads to double free, which may result to a denial of service. Since the DN decoding occurs in almost all applications using certificates it is recommended to upgrade the latest GnuTLS version fixing the issue.

Resolution

Upgrade to 3.4.4.1-1. # pacman -Syu "gnutls>=3.4.4.1-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 3.4.4 and 3.3.17.

References

http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2015-3 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6251

Severity
Package : gnutls
Type : denial of service
Remote : Yes
Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Workaround

None.

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