CVE-2006-4790

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2006-09-08
Bugzilla:
1618201: CVE-2006-4790 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

verify.c in GnuTLS before 1.4.4, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle excess data in the digestAlgorithm.parameters field when generating a hash, which allows remote attackers to forge a PKCS #1 v1.5 signature that is signed by that RSA key and prevents GnuTLS from correctly verifying X.509 and other certificates that use PKCS, a variant of CVE-2006-4339.

Find out more about CVE-2006-4790 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (gnutls) RHSA-2006:0680 2006-09-14

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