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CVE-2013-2116 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence

Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2013-2116

CVE-2013-2116

UNKNOWN

The _gnutls_ciphertext2compressed function in lib/gnutls_cipher

Published Jul 3, 2013

Modified 1 years ago

Details

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

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

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

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

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/53911

http://secunia.com/advisories/57260

http://secunia.com/advisories/57274

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2116

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Exploitability

Access Vector

NetworkAV:N

Access Complexity

LowAC:L

Authentication

NoneAu:N

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

PartialA:P

5/AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedJul 3, 2013

ModifiedAug 6, 2024