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CVE-2015-6251

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Date: August 24, 2015

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (5)

Url: http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2015-3

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/10/1

Url: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/272854367efc130fbd4f1a51840d80c630214e12

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6251

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-6251

Severity Score

5.3

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 3.3.17,3.4.4

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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