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CVE-2008-1949

Date: May 21, 2008

The _gnutls_recv_client_kx_message function in lib/gnutls_kx.c in libgnutls in gnutls-serv in GnuTLS before 2.2.4 continues to process Client Hello messages within a TLS message after one has already been processed, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and crash) via a TLS message containing multiple Client Hello messages, aka GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-2.

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (42)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30330

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00003.html

Url: http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/advisory-gnutls.html

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42530

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0492.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30338

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1581

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0489.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30355

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30331

Url: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2552

Url: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/252626

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/20/1

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/20/2

Url: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnutls.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bc8102405fda11ea00ca3b42acc4f4bce9d6e97b

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-613-1

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/20/3

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30317

Url: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00055.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1949

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9519

Url: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00060.html

Url: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=600646&group_id=21558

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492282/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020058

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00590.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1583/references

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30324

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30302

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492464/100/0/threaded

Url: http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3902

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:106

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0174

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30287

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31939

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-20.xml

Url: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00051.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1582/references

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00487.html

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00615.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29292

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-1949

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Authentication Issues

CWE-287

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	10.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2008-1949

Date: May 21, 2008

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