VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2006-7239

medium
Published 2010-05-24 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The _gnutls_x509_oid2mac_algorithm function in lib/gnutls_algorithms.c in GnuTLS before 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted X.509 certificate that uses a hash algorithm that is not supported by GnuTLS, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnugnutls{"endIncluding":"1.4.1"}
gnugnutls1.0.16
gnugnutls1.0.17
gnugnutls1.0.18
gnugnutls1.0.19
gnugnutls1.0.20
gnugnutls1.0.21
gnugnutls1.0.22
gnugnutls1.0.23
gnugnutls1.0.24
gnugnutls1.0.25
gnugnutls1.1.13
gnugnutls1.1.14
gnugnutls1.1.15
gnugnutls1.1.16
gnugnutls1.1.17
gnugnutls1.1.18
gnugnutls1.1.19
gnugnutls1.1.20
gnugnutls1.1.21
gnugnutls1.1.22
gnugnutls1.1.23
gnugnutls1.2.0
gnugnutls1.2.1
gnugnutls1.2.2
gnugnutls1.2.3
gnugnutls1.2.4
gnugnutls1.2.5
gnugnutls1.2.6
gnugnutls1.2.7
gnugnutls1.2.8
gnugnutls1.2.8.1a1
gnugnutls1.2.9
gnugnutls1.2.10
gnugnutls1.2.11
gnugnutls1.3.0
gnugnutls1.3.1
gnugnutls1.3.2
gnugnutls1.3.3
gnugnutls1.3.4
gnugnutls1.3.5
gnugnutls1.4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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