CVE-2017-7869
gnutls: Out-of-bounds write related to the cdk_pkt_read function (GNUTLS-SA-2017-3)
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · April 14, 2017
Updated · May 13, 2026
Description
GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdk_pkt_read function in opencdk/read-packet.c. This issue (which is a subset of the vendor's GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 report) is fixed in 3.5.10.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 8.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write