CVE-2004-2531

X.509 Certificate Signature Verification in Gnu transport layer security library (GnuTLS) 1.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via certificates containing long chains and signed with large RSA keys.

CVSS v2.0 7.8 HIGH

7.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
http://www.hornik.sk/SA/SA-20040802.txt	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2004-August/000703.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10839	Patch
http://www.osvdb.org/8278	Patch
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010838	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/12156	Patch Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16858

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2004-12-30 21:00

Updated : 2017-07-10 18:31

NVD link : CVE-2004-2531

Mitre link : CVE-2004-2531

JSON object : View

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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Products Affected

gnu

gnutls

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