CVE-2011-4128

medium
Published 2011-12-08 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
โ€”
CVSS v4 NEW
โ€”
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Buffer overflow in the gnutls_session_get_data function in lib/gnutls_session.c in GnuTLS 2.12.x before 2.12.14 and 3.x before 3.0.7, when used on a client that performs nonstandard session resumption, allows remote TLS servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large SessionTicket.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
โ€”

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnugnutls2.12.0
gnugnutls2.12.1
gnugnutls2.12.2
gnugnutls2.12.3
gnugnutls2.12.4
gnugnutls2.12.5
gnugnutls2.12.6
gnugnutls2.12.6.1
gnugnutls2.12.7
gnugnutls2.12.8
gnugnutls2.12.9
gnugnutls2.12.10
gnugnutls2.12.11
gnugnutls2.12.12
gnugnutls2.12.13
gnugnutls3.0.0
gnugnutls3.0.1
gnugnutls3.0.2
gnugnutls3.0.3
gnugnutls3.0.4
gnugnutls3.0.5
gnugnutls3.0.6

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.