VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-1663

high
Published 2012-03-13 · 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
8.5

Description

Double free vulnerability in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 3.0.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted certificate list.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-24865 dos linux
Shawn the R0ck · 2013-03-22

GnuTLS libgnutls - Double-Free Certificate List Parsing Remote Denial of Service

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.0.14-1
sid Fixed 3.0.14-1
forky Fixed 3.0.14-1
bullseye Fixed 3.0.14-1
bookworm Fixed 3.0.14-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnugnutls{"endIncluding":"3.0.13"}
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
gnugnutls1.4.1
gnugnutls1.4.2
gnugnutls1.4.3
gnugnutls1.4.4
gnugnutls1.4.5
gnugnutls1.5.0
gnugnutls1.5.1
gnugnutls1.5.2
gnugnutls1.5.3
gnugnutls1.5.4
gnugnutls1.5.5
gnugnutls1.6.0
gnugnutls1.6.1
gnugnutls1.6.2
gnugnutls1.6.3
gnugnutls1.7.0
gnugnutls1.7.1
gnugnutls1.7.2
gnugnutls1.7.3
gnugnutls1.7.4
gnugnutls1.7.5
gnugnutls1.7.6
gnugnutls1.7.7
gnugnutls1.7.8
gnugnutls1.7.9
gnugnutls1.7.10
gnugnutls1.7.11
gnugnutls1.7.12
gnugnutls1.7.13
gnugnutls1.7.14
gnugnutls1.7.15
gnugnutls1.7.16
gnugnutls1.7.17
gnugnutls1.7.18
gnugnutls1.7.19
gnugnutls2.0.0
gnugnutls2.0.1
gnugnutls2.0.2
gnugnutls2.0.3
gnugnutls2.0.4
gnugnutls2.1.0
gnugnutls2.1.1
gnugnutls2.1.2
gnugnutls2.1.3
gnugnutls2.1.4
gnugnutls2.1.5
gnugnutls2.1.6
gnugnutls2.1.7
gnugnutls2.1.8
gnugnutls2.2.0
gnugnutls2.2.1
gnugnutls2.2.2
gnugnutls2.2.3
gnugnutls2.2.4
gnugnutls2.2.5
gnugnutls2.3.0
gnugnutls2.3.1
gnugnutls2.3.2
gnugnutls2.3.3
gnugnutls2.3.4
gnugnutls2.3.5
gnugnutls2.3.6
gnugnutls2.3.7
gnugnutls2.3.8
gnugnutls2.3.9
gnugnutls2.3.10
gnugnutls2.3.11
gnugnutls2.4.0
gnugnutls2.4.1
gnugnutls2.4.2
gnugnutls2.4.3
gnugnutls2.5.0
gnugnutls2.6.0
gnugnutls2.6.1
gnugnutls2.6.2
gnugnutls2.6.3
gnugnutls2.6.4
gnugnutls2.6.5
gnugnutls2.6.6
gnugnutls2.7.4
gnugnutls2.8.0
gnugnutls2.8.1
gnugnutls2.8.2
gnugnutls2.8.3
gnugnutls2.8.4
gnugnutls2.8.5
gnugnutls2.8.6
gnugnutls2.10.0
gnugnutls2.10.1
gnugnutls2.10.2
gnugnutls2.10.3
gnugnutls2.10.4
gnugnutls2.10.5
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
gnugnutls2.12.14
gnugnutls3.0
gnugnutls3.0.0
gnugnutls3.0.1
gnugnutls3.0.2
gnugnutls3.0.3
gnugnutls3.0.4
gnugnutls3.0.5
gnugnutls3.0.6
gnugnutls3.0.7
gnugnutls3.0.8
gnugnutls3.0.9
gnugnutls3.0.10
gnugnutls3.0.11
gnugnutls3.0.12

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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