CVE-2017-5334

gnutls: Double-free while decoding crafted X.509 certificates

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · January 10, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

A double-free flaw was found in the way GnuTLS parsed certain X.509 certificates with Proxy Certificate Information extension. An attacker could create a specially-crafted certificate which, when processed by an application compiled against GnuTLS, could cause that application to crash.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CWE-416 · Use After Free