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CVE-2013-2116

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Description

The _gnutls_ciphertext2compressed function in lib/gnutls_cipher.c in GnuTLS 2.12.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and crash) via a crafted padding length. NOTE: this might be due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-0169.

References

https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/5164d5a1d57cd0372a5dd074382ca960ca18b27d

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1843-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028603

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:171

http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2013-2

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2697

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/6754

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/6753

http://secunia.com/advisories/57274

http://secunia.com/advisories/57260

http://secunia.com/advisories/53911

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0883.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00003.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00001.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00019.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-07-03

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.08988

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