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CVE-2008-1949

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-287 Authentication Issues
Publication date:
21/05/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The _gnutls_recv_client_kx_message function in lib/gnutls_kx.c in libgnutls in gnutls-serv in GnuTLS before 2.2.4 continues to process Client Hello messages within a TLS message after one has already been processed, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and crash) via a TLS message containing multiple Client Hello messages, aka GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-2.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.1.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.1.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.1.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.1.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.1.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.1.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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