VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-5335

high
Published 2017-03-24 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The stream reading functions in lib/opencdk/read-packet.c in GnuTLS before 3.3.26 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-memory error and crash) via a crafted OpenPGP certificate.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.2 Affected —
42.1 Affected —
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.5.8-1
sid Fixed 3.5.8-1
forky Fixed 3.5.8-1
bullseye Fixed 3.5.8-1
bookworm Fixed 3.5.8-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnugnutls{"endIncluding":"3.3.25"}
gnugnutls3.5.0
gnugnutls3.5.1
gnugnutls3.5.2
gnugnutls3.5.3
gnugnutls3.5.4
gnugnutls3.5.5
gnugnutls3.5.6
gnugnutls3.5.7

References

CWEs

CWE-125

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

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