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CVE-2019-3829
published 2019-03-27

CVE-2019-3829: A vulnerability was found in gnutls versions from 3.5.8 before 3.6.7. A memory corruption (double free) vulnerability in the certificate verification API. Any…

PriorityP358high7.5CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
58.97%
99.0th percentile
A vulnerability was found in gnutls versions from 3.5.8 before 3.6.7. A memory corruption (double free) vulnerability in the certificate verification API. Any client or server application that verifies X.509 certificates with GnuTLS 3.5.8 or later is affected.

Affected

4 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiangnutls28< gnutls28 3.6.7-2 (bookworm)gnutls28 3.6.7-2 (bookworm)
gnugnutls>= 3.5.8 < 3.6.73.6.7
gnutlsgnutls
gnutlsgnutls

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

urlhttps://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/ad27713bef613e6c4600a0fb83ae48c6d390ff5b
  • The vulnerable code path is in `_gnutls_x509_get_signature`, which does not clear `signature->data` in the cleanup path — monitor for crashes or double-free signals in processes calling GnuTLS certificate verification routines (versions 3.5.8 through 3.6.6).
  • Trigger vector is a specially-crafted X.509 certificate sent to any client or server application that calls GnuTLS certificate verification; look for anomalous or malformed certificate chains in TLS handshake traffic.
  • Affected version range is GnuTLS 3.5.8 up to (not including) 3.6.7; inventory and flag any deployments running these versions.
  • ·Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7 ship GnuTLS versions predating 3.5.8 and are NOT affected; only RHEL 8 required patching.
  • ·The double-free manifests differently depending on threading model: use-after-free in multi-threaded clients vs. double-free in single-threaded clients.

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_ubuntu5.9MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.3MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.3MEDIUM
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