CVE-2009-1415

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-04-30
Bugzilla:
498423: CVE-2009-1415 gnutls: Double free and free of invalid pointer on certain errors [GNUTLS-SA-2009-1]

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

lib/pk-libgcrypt.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.6.6 does not properly handle invalid DSA signatures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed DSA key that triggers a (1) free of an uninitialized pointer or (2) double free.

Find out more about CVE-2009-1415 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of gnutls shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 as it only affected gnutls 2.6.x versions.

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